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naked singularity

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naked singularity
n
(Astronomy) Astronomy an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole See also black hole


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Our description of photons, for instance, may be undermined because those photons may have interacted with a naked singularity while zipping across the universe.
A Naked Singularity Sergio De La Pava Amonte Press 110 Wall Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10005 c/o Xlibris Press 1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200, Bloomington, IN 47403 9781436341998, $23.
A naked singularity would be a singularity bereft of a concealing black-hole shell, and therefore visible, in principle, to outside observers.
 
 
 
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