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- [Mersini-Houghton] and Hawking both agree that as a star collapses under its own gravity, it produces Hawking radiation. However, in her new work, Mersini-Houghton shows that by giving off this radiation, the star also sheds mass. So much so that as it shrinks it no longer has the density to become a black hole.
No. Black holes exist, we have observed a ton of them. This (not peer reviewed) paper only demonstrates that hawking radiation is a problem for the theory of a black hole, not it's reality. All this work says is we need to reevaluate how (specifically stellar-mass) black holes are formed.
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BLOB_CASTLE · 3738 days ago · link ·
Yeah, I don't know if I agree with their conclusion either. I just threw it up because I thought it was an interesting way of restating the issue you brought up.