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by Entangled 2805 days ago
We have a room filled with one foot of iron, one foot of sand, one foot of water, one foot of air, and some empty space filled with god knows what needs to be filled in order to balance the gravity equations. There is one group of people looking for particles less dense than air to fill the rest of the room. I am in the group that's looking at the other end for particles denser than iron, and I firmly believe they are contained in black stars (wrongly named black holes).
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You can "firmly believe" in whatever you want. That's not science, that's belief. The evidence points towards the existence of dark matter very strongly, and the evidence has eliminated the possibility of dark matter being made up primarily of black holes. Which, incidentally, do exist and are not "black stars" (the gravitational wave detections of merging black holes are the strongest evidence yet of the existence of black holes and don't leave wiggle room for alternate theories).

If you don't form your beliefs based on where the evidence leads you then you are not following science, period.

Is there anything on Arxiv I could read to learn more about your approach?
aren't black holes mass already computed accurately ?