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Are Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs?

PBS Space Time · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Cosmology & astrophysicsQuantum physics

What it is

A PBS Space Time episode on fuzzballs, the string-theory proposal for black holes that replaces the singularity with a tangle of strings. It explains why black holes seem to both have to exist and break known physics.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as an accessible pointer when threads discuss black hole models that avoid singularities.

  • 1 people recommended it
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What HN commenters said

  1. “PBS space time goes into a few of them”

    Covers theories of black holes without singularities.

    treeman79, 2023-05 · Recommendation · in “Black holes might be defects in spacetime”

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Topics: fuzzballs, string theory, singularity, quantum gravity, pbs space time

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