Dark energy star
A dark-energy star is an alternative term for what are now called black holes, which may more accurately describe their nature and interaction with the universe. The surface of a dark-energy star behaves like a black hole, but the inside has 'negative' gravity causing matter to bounce back out.
In March 2005, physicist George Chapline at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California proposed quantum mechanics makes it a "near certainty" black holes do not exist. This stems from differing predictions between general relativity and quantum mechanics on what happens at the event horizon. In the former an object would appear to be stuck forever; whereas the latter predicts stranger effects based on quantum fluctuations.
Furthermore 'primordial' dark-energy stars could be forming by fluctuations of space-time itself which is analogous to "blobs of liquid condensing spontaneously out of a cooling gas." This not only alters the understanding of black holes but has the potential to explain dark energy and dark matter indirectly observed.
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