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by jpt1 3774 days ago
> But as of a little more than a week ago I’m finally convinced that black holes exist, just as General Relativity suggests.

Didn't we know black holes 100% exist 20 yrs ago because of the orbits of the stars around the centre of the galaxy and before that because of quasars?

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Well, we had good reason to believe that there were things with approximately their mass in approximately their area that emitted approximately 0 light to us. Which, yeah, isn't quite the same thing, cause you could imagine that if GR was slightly wrong, you could have something slightly different at the center than a True Singularity.