A new paper released late last month in which famed British physicist Stephen Hawking contradicts his own theory and says that Black Holes – in the real sense – do not actually exist has startled the international scientific community.

But Abhas Mitra, a theoretical physicist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, is not at all surprised. "I said more than a decade ago that the Black Hole solutions found in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity actually correspond to zero mass and are never formed. This implies that the so-called Black Hole candidates must be Grey Holes or quasi-Black Holes," Mitra said, adding, "Hawking is saying the same thing now."

A man ahead of his times

Mitra's papers, published in peer-reviewed journals since 2000 – that still remain unchallenged – maintain that there can be objects in the universe that are quasi-static or "eternally collapsing" but not exactly Black Holes. "This work was largely ignored by mainstream physicists as well as the media while Hawking's recent two-page online paper saying exactly the same thing has become hot international news," Mitra has expressed.

He said this happened even though several American astrophysicists verified his prediction that such quasi-Black Holes must have strong magnetic fields unlike the real Black Holes, adding that even Harvard University issued a press release to this effect in 2006.

The unsung hero

In a series of peer-reviewed papers, Mitra has shown that no true Black Holes can ever form. The so-called Black Holes observed by astronomers are actually radiation-pressure supported Eternally Collapsing Objects (ECOs). These balls of fire are so hot that even neutrons and protons melt there and their outward radiation pressure balances the inward pull of gravity to arrest a catastrophic collapse before any Black Hole or 'singularity' would actually form.

"Incidentally, our Sun is also a ball of fire hot enough to melt atoms," Mitra noted.

"Thus, the realization that there can be no true Black Holes and the so-called Black Holes are actually ECOs resolve both the Information and Firewall paradoxes," Mitra said.

"Hawking has now arrived at the same conclusion from tentative arguments while our results are based on exact calculations and were published in a series of peer-reviewed papers over 13 years ago," Mitra added.


Link to Abhas Mitra’s theories on Black Holes and Eternally Collapsing Objects, and related information: http://eternalblogs.wordpress.com/tag/abhas-mitra/

Link to the August 2001 Nature India article about Abhas Mitra’s theory questioning Black Holes: https://www.academia.edu/1747624/No_Black_Hole_According_To_General_Relativity_Nature_India_

Abhas Mitra’s latest article proving the non-existence of true Black Holes: https://www.academia.edu/4886180/Einsteinian_Revolutions_Misinterpretation_No_True_Black_Holes_No_Information_Paradox_Just_Quasi-static_Balls_of_Quark_Gluon_Plasma