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Listener Questions 35: Exomoons, black holes and math!

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There a Singularity at the Center of a Black Hole?

We don't know what's going on inside a black hole. Matter has many ways to protect itself from collapsing. There might be something else quantum mechanical that matter can do to resist being compressed into a singularity. To know how that works, we'd have to have a theory of quantum gravity, which we just don't have. From the outside, it still just looks like a black hole because you can't see beyond the event horizon.

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