“Hawking stars” are theoretical stellar objects with small black holes inside them. “Our sun could even have a black hole as massive as the planet Mercury at its center without us noticing.”
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“Hawking stars” are theoretical stellar objects with small black holes inside them. “Our sun could even have a black hole as massive as the planet Mercury at its center without us noticing.”
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PBS Space Time has a nice video about this research and its implications. (thx @mulad)
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