There Are No Such Things As Black Holes

universetoday.com ^ | September 24, 2014 | Jason Major on

[BenLurkin]

That’s the conclusion reached by one researcher from the University of North Carolina: black holes can’t exist in our Universe — not mathematically, anyway.

“I’m still not over the shock,” said Laura Mersini-Houghton, associate physics professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. “We’ve been studying this problem for a more than 50 years and this solution gives us a lot to think about.”

In a news article spotlighted by UNC the scenario suggested by Mersini-Houghton is briefly explained. Basically, when a massive star reaches the end of its life and collapses under its own gravity after blasting its outer layers into space — which is commonly thought to result in an ultra-dense point called a singularity surrounded by a light- and energy-trapping event horizon — it undergoes a period of intense outgoing radiation (the sort of which was famously deduced by Stephen Hawking.) This release of radiation is enough, Mersini-Houghton has calculated, to cause the collapsing star to lose too much mass to allow a singularity to form. No singularity means no event horizon… and no black hole.

[InterceptPoint]

This is interesting. I assume the math and the related assumptions will be given well more than the normal scrutiny. Even if there are no black holes there is still something very powerful spinning our galaxy around in circles.

[cripplecreek]

Does he explain supermassive gravity wells at the centers of galaxies?

[jonascord]

Since my divorce, and the return to accepting the responsibility of doing my own laundry, my socks have stopped disappearing.

Just saying...

[Bitsy]

“a zay lee uhs”...
You’re from the South alright.

[cripplecreek]

Yeah, its not so simple as “They don’t exist”. Something of extreme gravity exists and eats whole stars.

[Brother Cracker]

[Darksheare]

Obviously they never saw Washington DC.

[dragonblustar]

Government spending.....

[Bitsy]

my socks have stopped disappearing.

Just saying...
Was there grudge theft involved? Just asking...

[xp38]

a bad Disney movie from 1979

[Darksheare]

Yog Sothoth obviously.

[cripplecreek]

Speaking of eating money and big assholes (And nuts like BBs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYfxJlwWZ_U

[RedMDer]

There’s one on 1600 Penn. Ave.

[Darksheare]

Great.
They need to meet the great cornholio who is searching for tee pee.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No string theory.

No black holes.

Soon no dark matter?

Poor guy. He is going to have to pout and run away again. Or finally take Amy up on her offer.

♫A whole new world...♫

[Resolute Conservative]

I did not know that they were a problem that needed addressing.

[yoe]

The very word “science” means knowledge and since there is no end to knowledge......

[wally_bert]

Pretty good movie.

[dragonblustar]

Hawking goes to strip clubs.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/07/28/Report-Stephen-Hawking-is-a-somewhat-of-a-regular-at-California-strip-club/8441406564718/

[varon]

Of course they are... THAT’S where the missing e mails are!! :)

and the missing socks..............