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   Dr. Victoria Grinberg (vicgrinberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 22:10:28 JST Dr. Victoria Grinberg

   What did you always wonder about #BlackHoles? Something that you always wanted to ask an astronomer working on them?

   Collecting questions for a reason, maybe even answering them in the comments (or at a later point).

   #VicisAstro

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 22:10:27 JST goatsarah

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     @vicgrinberg Do you think that singularities are real, or are they a failure at the limit of our ability to model?
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     Tommaths (he/him) (teakayb@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 04:30:30 JST Tommaths (he/him)

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     @goatsarah @vicgrinberg
     I was trying to work out how to word this idea; I think you've done a really good job of it!

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     Dr. Victoria Grinberg (vicgrinberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 17:58:09 JST Dr. Victoria Grinberg

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     @goatsarah when things get very small, so when things get close to singularity, we need to use both General Relativity and quantum mechanics, however so far we do not know how to combine both. Finding this "Quantum theory of gravity" or "Theory of Everything" is one of the big questions of today's physics! So a singularity is a handy description within the general relativity but we know that general relativity is (likely) not enough...

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