Abhas Mitra
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Abhas Mitra is an Indian physicist. He published a paper in the peer reviewed journal Foundation of Physics Letters (December 2000) claiming that an absolute black hole could not exist if Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was adhered to rigorously.[1] Mitra's research in 2002 came to the conclusion that black hole candidates have intense magnetic fields and therefore are not real black holes which cannot have magnetic field. Instead, Mitra coined the term Magnetospheric eternally collapsing object (MECO) in 1998 to describe what other members of the scientific community understood as black holes.[2]
[edit] See also
- Twin Quasar
- Magnetospheric Eternally Collapsing Objects (MECO) - Abhas Mitra's alternative to a black hole, proposed in 1998
[edit] References
- ^ Meet the Indian who took on Stephen Hawking. rediff.com (2003-08-03). Retrieved on 2006-07-04.
- ^ No black holes after all?. world-science.net (2006-08-11). Retrieved on 2006-11-03.
[edit] External links
- Research Sheds New Light On Quasars (SpaceDaily) July 26, 2006
