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by Moodles 3039 days ago
I believe the term "frozen star" was also used for a time to describe black holes. I'm no physicist but I'm not sure this is an appropriate term either: blackholes are supposed to be really cold inside but really hot from the outside.
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I think frozen star refers to the fact that from an outside observer's perspective, the star seems to stop collapsing at the last possible moment, suspended in time as it were, because light from the moment of black hole formation takes an infinite amount of time to reach the observer.