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Could black holes actually be fuzzballs?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There a Black Hole?

Daniel Treisman: What we think of as a black hole is actually an image of something called a string ball. He says the idea is that if you take a neutron star and then squeeze it even more, you break open the neutrons and the quarks to spill out all the strings inside. Treisman: These things would resist collapse because of their stringiness. The images I've seen online that describe what these scientists are thinking about look fuzzy.

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