New research indicates that when matter has been pulled past an event horizon, it would simply be diminished. Once a black hole was shaped, the event horizon also formed. In the event horizon, there is the point of no return and the matter just simply vanishes.
The research was led by scientists from the University of Texas and Harvard University. Pawan Kumar, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Texas at Austin, said their whole point in this research is to turn the idea of an event horizon into an experimental science and to determine if event horizons really do exist or not. The team wants to find concrete evidence that there is an event horizon around black holes.
Wenbin Lu, a scientist who examined the hard-surface theory, said given the rate of stars falling onto black holes and the number density of black holes in the closeby universe, they gauged how many transients Pan-STARRS have been identified over a period of operation of three and a half years. He further said that it turns out it should have identified over 10 of them, if the hard-surface theory is true, as noted by Forbes.
There should be a definitive signature if there is an existence of the hard surface outside of the black hole's event horizon. On the other hand, no signature has been seen at all.
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