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Hawking Had Lost His Bet on Naked Singularities — Physicists Just Described Them Mathematically for the First Time

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In 1997, Stephen Hawking acknowledged his defeat in a bet on the existence of naked singularities — observable cosmic objects, without the horizon of events. Thirty years later, a team of physicists has described them mathematically with precision, pen in hand. A major theoretical advance that brings these unlikely objects closer to the realm of the possible. [...]
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In 1997, Stephen Hawking acknowledged his defeat in a bet on the existence of naked singularities — observable cosmic objects, without the horizon of events. Thirty years later, a team of physicists has described them mathematically with precision, pen in hand. A major theoretical advance that brings these unlikely objects closer to the realm of the possible. [...]

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SciencePost broke the news on Thursday, August 6, 2026.
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