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Could black holes actually be fuzzballs?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How to Make a Fuzzball?

As you tie a bunch of strings together, they tend to get longer and the tension decreases. So, if you can squeeze a bunch ofstrings together, they can make really big, macroscopic objects like a fuzzball. It doesn't have an event horizon, there is no event horizon there, but it does distort light in the same way a dark star would. You don't actually have to have a singularity in order to bend space enough to create gravitational red shifting and time dilation to look like a black hole or to be indistinguishable with our technology from a true general relativistic black hole.

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