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		hinkley 58 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole So the question there is if it’s worth it for us to study a naked singularity. What would it teach us? And how do you get into orbit?

marcellus23 57 days ago | [–]

Naked singularities lack event horizons, not accretion disks. By definition, black holes are not naked singularities.

celticninja 57 days ago | [–]

Is it worth studying?

Yes. Yes it most certainly is. Whatever we learn will be new.

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