Primordial naked singularity (IMAGE)
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A cartoon of a black hole and a naked singularity. Either of them can be the end product of a gravita tional collapse of matter, depending on initial and other conditions. For a black hole, nothing, not even light, can escape from within the event horizon. Therefore, the almost infinitely dense matter, that is the singularity, and its surrounding region are inaccessible to a distant observer. But, the singularity and its surrounding region are accessible for a naked singularity because it does not have an event horizon. Thus, naked singularities, if they exist, provide a unique opportunity to probe the quantum gravity near the singularity and other extreme aspects of physics in its surrounding region.
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Sudip Bhattacharyya
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