>I should mention pre-existing biases; my default setting is skeptical. I don’t really believe that black holes exist
Wonder if dark matter/energy will turn out to be the Aether of the 21st century.
Wonder if dark matter/energy will turn out to be the Aether of the 21st century.
If you think, as more cautiously-minded folks seem to, that they're just clever catchwords to describe troubling lacunae in our understanding of how the universe works, not so much. There really are observations that we have trouble explaining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzball_(string_theory)
But there I think most physicists think something like the solution to the Einstein field equations does obtain within most of the interior region of the objects we call black holes. They just believe that the region of the singularity may have some other physics so that it doesn't become singular.