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Planck “Star” to Arise From Black Holes?
Monday, February 10, 2014 7:12
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Artistic view of a radiating black hole. Credit: NASA
A new paper has been posted on the arxiv (a repository of research preprints) introducing the idea of a Planck star arising from a black hole. These hypothetical objects wouldn’t be a star in the traditional sense, but rather the light emitted when a black hole dies at the hands of Hawking radiation. The paper hasn’t been peer reviewed, but it presents an interesting idea and a possible observational test.(…)
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