What if Singularities FAIL to Exist?

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It's not too often that a giant of physics threatens to overturn an idea held to be self-evident by generations of physicists. Well, that may be the fate of the famous Penrose Singularity Theorem if we're to believe a recent paper by Roy Kerr. Long story short, the terrible singularity at the heart of the black hole may be no more.

Roy Kerr Paper: Do Black Holes have Singularities?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.00841.pdf

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