- Abhas Mitra
Abhas Mitra is an Indian
physicist . He published a paper in the peer reviewed journal "Foundation of Physics Letters" (December 2000) claiming that an absoluteblack hole could not exist ifAlbert Einstein 's General Theory of Relativity was adhered to rigorously.cite web|url=http://us.rediff.com/news/2004/aug/03hole.htm| title=Meet the Indian who took on Stephen Hawking| date=2003-08-03 | accessdate=2006-07-04 | work=rediff.com ] 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.cite web|url=http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060811_quasar.htm| title=No black holes after all? |date=2006-08-11 |accessdate=2006-11-03|work=world-science.net]ee also
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Twin Quasar
*Magnetospheric Eternally Collapsing Objects (MECO) - Abhas Mitra's alternative to a black hole, proposed in1998 References
External links
* [http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Research_Sheds_New_Light_On_Quasars_999.html Research Sheds New Light On Quasars] (SpaceDaily) July 26, 2006
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