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BillZBubb

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5. I suspect a lot of embarrassment ahead for Ms. Mersini-Houghton
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 10:21 PM
Sep 2014

There are supermassive objects at the center of galaxies which don't show up in the visible range, but strongly affect other massive objects around them. Astronomers find these "invisible" objects by watching the movements of those objects near to them.

Call them what you will, they fit the description of what is understood to be a black hole. Perhaps she found a flaw in the theories used to describe black hole formation. And maybe her claim is that the current theories can't be used to describe black hole formation. If so, the theory may have a hole, but the black holes are there. She certainly hasn't proven black holes do not exist, because they do.

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