On continued gravitational collapse

Abstract

According to a widespread idee fixe, the spherically-symmetric collapse of a sufficiently massive celestial body of spherical shape should generate a black hole. I prove that this process generates simply an ordinary point mass. My argument is model-independent.

5 pages, PDF, submitted to Il Nuovo Cimento

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