Reading Space | The Rise and Fall of the Black Hole Paradigm

What is a black hole? Do true black holes really exist?

Today on Reading Space Episode, we bring to you an exclusive excerpt from Abhas Mitra's The Rise and Fall of the Black Hole Paradigm!

While the black hole paradigm has become commonplace in popular consciousness, in the last decade, the noise has consistently grown about the many physical effects which can inhibit the formation of exact mathematical black holes. In The Rise and Fall of the Black Hole Paradigm, Abhas Mitra shows us how, much before these developments, he had proven why the so-called black holes must only be black hole pretenders. He identified these black hole candidates to be Magnetospheric Eternally Collapsing Objects (MECOs), and along with Darryl J. Leiter and Stanley L. Robertson, generalized them. Recent evidence for the existence of strong magnetic fields around so-called black holes may provide confirmations of his claim.