A Black Hole’s Core Could be a Strange “Planck Star”

There’s a lot of interesting theories about black holes, and what happens inside of them. The notion that once matter enters the event horizon around the singularity, nothing, not even photons themselves, can escape is one idea.

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Not this again.

Yes, it’s possible.

But it requires speculative physics beyond the standard model.

mollwollfumble said:

Not this again.

Yes, it’s possible.

But it requires speculative physics beyond the standard model.

But surely any hypothesis about what its like inside a black hole requires speculative physics beyond the standard model.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Not this again.

Yes, it’s possible.

But it requires speculative physics beyond the standard model.

But surely any hypothesis about what its like inside a black hole requires speculative physics beyond the standard model.

Yes, and the idea of a “Planck star” goes back at least 90 years, without the slightest bit of evidence in favour of it.

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Not this again.

Yes, it’s possible.

But it requires speculative physics beyond the standard model.

But surely any hypothesis about what its like inside a black hole requires speculative physics beyond the standard model.

Yes, and the idea of a “Planck star” goes back at least 90 years, without the slightest bit of evidence in favour of it.

Not according to TATE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_star

All sounds entirely reasonable to me.

Nobody knows, and that might remain the case forever.