timmdeeg said:
Perhaps with the mass in a yet unknown state of high density in the center.
There is no such thing, at least not if I am correct about what you mean. See below.
Ibix said:
as I understand it the singularity theorems imply that non-trivial spacetimes always have singularities somewhere under fairly general circumstances. So I'd expect a singularity, just not necessarily a similar geometry to the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole.
The singularity theorems say that if you have a spacetime containing a trapped surface in which the energy conditions are obeyed everywhere, then that spacetime must be geodesically incomplete. "Geodesically incomplete" is the precise technical definition of "has a singularity". Note that the theorems do
not say that any invariants must increase without bound as the finite limit points along incomplete geodesics are approached; in other words, it does
not have to be the case that anything "goes to infinity" at a singularity. In cases where that does happen, it has to be established by specific computations using that specific spacetime geometry (for example, computing curvature invariants as ##r \to 0## in Schwarzschild spacetime).
The two key conditions of the theorems are often not fullly considered. The first condition, it should be noted, is
not that an
event horizon is present--it is only that a
trapped surface is present. In an idealized model like Schwarzschild spacetime, the trapped surface is the same as the event horizon. But that is not generally true. There are models that have trapped surfaces, but
no event horizons anywhere.
The second condition, that the energy conditions are obeyed everywhere, are satisfied by what we think of as "matter" and "radiation", but they are
not satisfied by dark energy (aka a cosmological constant), or by certain quantum field states. There are models like the Bardeen "black hole" (a misnomer, as will be evident in a moment) which have trapped surfaces, but no event horizon and no singularity anywhere (i.e., they are geodesically complete), because the stress-energy tensor in the deep interior acts like dark energy and violates the energy conditions.
So if we are looking for a model of something that looks from the outside like a black hole, but has some kind of "yet unknown state" of mass in the deep interior, that state
cannot be any kind of ordinary matter or radiation. It can only be something like the Bardeen solution. But that solution has no event horizon and is not a black hole. There is no way to have both an event horizon
and some kind of ordinary matter or radiation in the deep interior that is stationary.