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- Given that we now do know that black holes exist, how is this apparent paradox resolved?
In A short course in general relativity, Foster and Nightingale write:
So in modern astronomy, how is this apparent paradox resolved?
If one assumes that the general features of a collapsing object are not too far removed from those that prevail in the spherically symmetric case, then one would expect the emergence of an event horizon which would shield the object in its collapsed state from view (see Fig. 4.14). An outside observer would see the object to be always outside the event horizon. However, it would effectively disappear from view because of the increasing redshift, and a black hole in space would be the result.¹⁸
¹⁸It would take an infinite time to disappear. If black holes do exist, then this is an argument that they must have been "put in" at the beginning.
So in modern astronomy, how is this apparent paradox resolved?