{"id":3927459,"date":"2026-08-12T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-if-theres-a-star-inside-a-black-hole\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:04:10","slug":"what-if-theres-a-star-inside-a-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-if-theres-a-star-inside-a-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"What if there&#8217;s a star inside a black hole?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>There is a question that often comes up at every public talk I do, and I have never had a good answer to it\u2014well, not an entirely confident one. What&#8217;s inside a black hole? The textbook reply is a singularity. Cross the event horizon, and everything falls inward to a point of infinite density where our equations return nonsense. It isn&#8217;t so much an answer as an admission that we&#8217;ve run out of physics.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-star-black-hole.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a question that often comes up at every public talk I do, and I have never had a good answer to it\u2014well, not an entirely confident one. What&#8217;s inside a black hole? The textbook reply is a singularity. Cross the event horizon, and everything falls inward to a point of infinite density where [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}