Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist

SpaceAdmiral writes "Nature reports that, according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, 'It's a near certainty that black holes don't exist.' George Chapline argues that the collapse of massive stars is more likely to lead to dark energy stars. These dark energy stars behave somewhat like a black hole outside of the surface, but the negative gravity inside could cause matter to 'bounce back out again.'"

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Re:The actual article

[gowen]

Four fucking pages?!? The guy claims to comprehensively contradict some of the best known and most studied concepts in astro-physics, and his proof covers FOUR PAGES? And contains almost no equations?

You'll forgive me, but given that people have observed things that appear in every measurable way to be black holes, I want a hell of a lot more convincing evidence than that to reject their existence.