Could Naked Singularities Exist?

To support SciShow Space and learn more about Brilliant, go to https://brilliant.org/scishowspace/. A naked singularity is something that should be a black hole, but it’s neither black nor a hole. If they exist, they’ll rewrite physics as we know it. We want to learn more about you and your opinions! If you have time, please take a moment to fill out this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017 Thank you! Host: Reid Reimers ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلط الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Bella Nash, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://io9.gizmodo.com/5825098/whats-so-scandalous-about-a-naked-singularity https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-gravity-is-weak-and-naked-singularities-are-verboten-20170620/ http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/new_naked_bet.html http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/nyt_bet_story.html https://www.sciencenews.org/article/naked-singularity-might-evade-cosmic-censor https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/critical-opalescence/what-would-it-be-like-to-fall-into-a-naked-singularity-guest-post/ http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/10/us/computer-defies-einstein-s-theory.html https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12917604.300-science-naked-singularities-pose-problems-for-einsteins-theory/ https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.994 http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/16/weekinreview/what-a-physicist-finds-obscene.html http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~tobin/documents/kip-in-discover-2007-11.pdf ---------- Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Hole_in_the_universe.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/nustar/multimedia/pia16695.html https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/467382main_dn12679-1_600.jpg https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141026.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap041226.html https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/multimedia/imagegallery/2017_achievements/ACD17-0168-12.html