"No one has ever seen a black hole, but they are predicted by Einstein's general
 theory of relativity, and few scientists doubt their existence"

 By Robert Roy Britt
 Senior Science Writer
 posted: 12:39 pm ET
 11 January 2001 

 http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/death_spiral_010111.html

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 "Perceptions" note:

 Suggest a check of :-

 http://www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/ansci.html#just

 and

 I believe this is the first evidence that the whole black hole paradigm is incorrect,"
 says Darryl Leiter of the Marwood Astrophysics Research Center in Charottesville, Virginia,
 US, who co-authored the study.
 http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn9620-mysterious-quasar-casts-doubt-on-black-holes.html

 and 

 Black holes might not exist – or at least not as scientists have imagined
 http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12089-do-black-holes-really-exist.html

 and 
 Black holes don't exist, Case physicists report
 Case researchers may have solved information loss paradox to find
 black holes do not form
 http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2007/06/20/blackholes

 and

 "American astronomers claim that black holes may not exist"
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1832896,00.html

 and

 "It's a near certainty that black holes don't exist" -
 George Chapline, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925423.600
 http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050328/pf/050328-8_pf.html
 http://xxx.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503200

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