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by cyberax 1122 days ago
Why? At a distance, gravity doesn't really care about density, only mass.

An infinitely dense object would shred anything it touches by its infinitely high tidal force, but there's only a limited amount of material it can touch within a given time and the Universe is not infinitely old.

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> but there's only a limited amount of material it can touch within a given time and the Universe is not infinitely old

Okay, to be precise something like that can't have existed in the observable universe (at the time we observe), but could exist in a distant bubble that's expanding at the speed of light.

>the Universe is not infinitely old

You don't know that. Claiming that there is a start to the universe is an absurd, religious ex nihilo argument.