New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists

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New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 6, 2014 @07:00AM from the cross-black-holes-off-your-list-of-good-hiding-places dept.

KentuckyFC writes "Black holes form when a large star runs out of fuel and collapses under its own weight. Since there is no known force that can stop this collapse, astrophysicists have always assumed that it forms a singularity, a region of space that is infinitely dense. Now cosmologists think quantum gravity might prevent this complete collapse after all. They say that the same force that stops an electron spiraling into a nucleus might also cause the collapsing star to 'bounce' at scales of around 10^-14cm. They're calling this new state a 'Planck star' and say its lifetime would match that of the black hole itself as it evaporates. That raises the possibility that the shrinking event horizon would eventually meet the expanding Planck star, which emerges with a sudden blast of gamma rays. That radiation would allow any information trapped in the black hole to escape, solving the infamous information paradox. If they're right, these gamma rays may already have been detected by space-based telescopes meaning that the evidence is already there for any enterprising astronomer to tease apart."

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BETA SUCK by cfulton · 2014-02-06 07:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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I'm wondering... by lvxferre · 2014-02-06 07:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...if a star can emerge from Slashdot Beta. That shit is a black hole of user interface hell.

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1. Re:I'm wondering... by avandesande · 2014-02-06 07:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  In Korea, only old people like Slashdot Beta
  
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2. Re:I'm wondering... by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2014-02-06 07:22 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
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3. Re:I'm wondering... by geekoid · 2014-02-06 08:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
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Re:Information paradox? by NoImNotNineVolt · 2014-02-06 07:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Who are you, and WHY ARE YOU NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT THE BETA?!

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FUCK BETA by fisted · 2014-02-06 07:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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To all the beta haters by Dcnjoe60 · 2014-02-06 07:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

We get it, you don't like the beta. Now will you quit with your rants? All you are doing is making slashdot unusable for everyone. If slashdot dies, it won't be from the beta, it will be from people not wanting to expend the effort to find real comments.
Enough already!
I have a proposal for the slashdot powers that be. How about all anonymous coward postings be automatically flagged for moderation and only those related to the article at hand be released?