Abhas Mitra
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Abhas Mitra is an India
n astrophysicist who is head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Section at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
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Mitra's writings challenging accepted ideas about black hole
s have led to him being described as an "anti-black hole astrophysicist" by Nature
. He uses the term eternally collapsing object for his alternative interpretation of stellar collapse. Mitra claims that observed black hole candidates cannot be true black holes.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n astrophysicist who is head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Section at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre is India's primary nuclear research facility based in Mumbai. It has a number of nuclear reactors, all of which are used for India's nuclear power and research programme.- History :...
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Mitra's writings challenging accepted ideas about black hole
Black hole
A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that...
s have led to him being described as an "anti-black hole astrophysicist" by Nature
Nature (journal)
Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...
. He uses the term eternally collapsing object for his alternative interpretation of stellar collapse. Mitra claims that observed black hole candidates cannot be true black holes.