“A large part of the relativity community is in denial”

refusing even to contemplate the idea that black holes may not exist in nature, or seriously consider the idea that any kind of new matter such as the new putative dark energy can play a fundamental role in gravity theory.
Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 14, Do Black Holes Exist In Nature?, p. 204

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