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Black Holes Disputed

Posted by michael on from the assuming-the-theory-holds dept.

JScarpace writes: "Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and at the University of South Carolina in Columbia have proposed the existence of "gravastars" which are bubbles of superdense matter. If they are correct, the idea of a black hole with a singularity at the center may be just a fantasy."

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  1. But if there are no black holes... by Oroborus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where do all my left socks go from the dryer?

  2. Re:gravastar? by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fine, I shall rename them.

    From now on they will be referred to as Doom Spheres.

  3. We've already proved the existence of black holes by guttentag · · Score: 4, Funny

    A famous former surgeon general discovered the first of these monsters a few years ago, and named it drkoop.com (the .com designation is often used to help identify black holes). Then there was altavista.com, webvan.com, and many others. The escape velocity exceeds the speed of VC money. Since nothing can go faster than VC money... Enron, by the way, is not a black hole. It's a pulsar -- a dead star that regularly flashes us with reminders that it's dead ("Enron doesn't have any money," "Enron doesn't have any money," Enron doesn't have any money," etc.).