00:00there's still a lot we don't know about black holes and that goes double for the supermassive
00:07variety they can be billions of times the mass of our sun and many were created when the universe
00:12was in its infancy meaning there weren't any stars big enough to collapse into such large behemoths
00:17a big problem with black holes is that physics as we know it sort of breaks down when applied
00:21to their mysterious workings however a new take on an old equation might just help us better
00:26understand how black holes work previously things break down because of enough mass is in a small
00:31enough area gravity will squish it down into an even smaller area but what happens after that
00:36well we don't really have the math to back it up a hypothesis to explain it was incepted back in 2001
00:42where physicists suggested a gravitational condensate star or gravistar could occur it's a hypothetical
00:47cosmic object consisting of a thin layer of matter compressed to extreme thinness and inflated with
00:53dark energy which is also still technically hypothetical gravistars would essentially
00:57appear to us as black holes all while circumventing paradoxes in physics that's because the new theory
01:03suggests there could be another gravistar inside that one effectively creating what they like into
01:07russian dolls of intensely dense gravistars
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