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Hang on, I was under the impression nobody actually thought singularities existed, only that our current math and physics isn't developed enough to get any reasonable results in such extreme places?
Nobody who's informed believes that the center is infinite, the general public on the other hand has been told the center of a black hole is a point of infinite density by 'experts' for nearing a century. It's the same mistranslation that happens when a lot of science is published in media, it's easy to just say what an expert knows but it's a lot harder to explain it well. The expert knows TONS of nuance on their subject while the rest of us don't have nearly enough time to become as informed as they are.
Doesn't the math say that it is a point of infinite density, and we know that can't be true, but are at a loss to explain it?
Or did I really get it wrong?
Maybe. If so, it would be like the ultraviolet catastrophe