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Was the LIGO team over-hasty to claim black holes confirmed?
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[QUOTE="PAllen, post: 5477112, member: 275028"] From the published paper, the following provides summary completely consistent with my earlier post: "Horizonless compact objects require exotic matter con- figurations and almost inevitably possesses a stable light ring at r < 3M [27]. The latter might be associated with various instabilities, including fragmentation and collapse [27] and the ergoregion instability [44–47] when the object rotates sufficiently fast. While our results are generic, the viability of a BH mimicker depends on the specific model, especially on its compactness and spin [48]. The recent GW detection by aLIGO [1] enormously strengthens the evidence for stellar-mass BHs, whose ex- istence is already supported by various indirect observa- tions in the electromagnetic band (cf. e.g. Refs. [49, 50]). While BHs remain the most convincing Occam’s razor hypothesis, it is important to bear in mind the elusive nature of an event horizon and the challenges associated with its direct detection." [/QUOTE]
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