Total Gravitational Collapse

20^th-century Mathematical View

Natural Process View

Basic collapse:

Self-collapse through the Schwarzschild radius to become a so-called black hole.

Self-collapse to become a Terminal star. Collapse halts when maximum density is attained.

What happens to excess or additional mass?

Added to the mathematical object called a singularity.

Causes a corresponding quantity to suffer aether deprivation annihilation.

Lightspeed boundary?

Yes. A boundary in space called an event horizon.

Yes. A pure energy surface (absent only at the polar portals).

Energy escape mechanism:

Black holes are purported to evaporate, via thermal radiation, very slowly.

Powerful polar emission beams (photons & neutrinos).

Problems:

· The singularity absurdity: the paradox of infinite density mass in a zero-dimensional space!

· The angular momentum paradox.

· The gravity paradox: The gravity-causing singularity sucks in everything EXCEPT the energy of its surrounding gravity field!! [1]

No problems, theoretical or practical.

Relationship to Einstein’s view:

Disagrees with Einstein’s view that mass does not collapse through its Schwarzschild size.*

Conforms to Einstein’s view.

Method for complying with conservation-of-matter law:

· Matter is not permanently lost. Mass never ever dies!

· Mass within BHs is mathematically converted to energy and radiated away.

· Local violation, yes. Global violation, no.

· Mass extinction by aether deprivation process is in perpetual cosmic-scale balance with matter-formation process(es).