Regular Black Holes: Towards a New Paradigm of Gravitational Collapse

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Black holes are one of the most fascinating predictions of general relativity.

• They are the natural product of the complete gravitational collapse of matter and today we have a body of observational evidence supporting the existence of black holes in the Universe.
• However, general relativity predicts that at the center of black holes there are spacetime singularities, where predictability is lost and standard physics breaks down.
• It is widely believed that spacetime singularities are a symptom of the limitations of general relativity and must be solved within a theory of quantum gravity.