What If There's a Star Inside a Black Hole?

Per Universe Today, two Chinese theorists have proposed a provocative mathematical solution to one of astrophysics' deepest mysteries: what happens inside a black hole. Rather than the singularity traditionally thought to reside at the heart—a point where density becomes infinite and our understanding of physics collapses entirely—their theory suggests something far more orderly: a neutron star, twelve kilometers across, whole and intact, its interior behaving according to known physics. The proposal is speculative, but it hints at a radical reframing of what's hidden beyond the event horizon.

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