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Until the early 1990s, it was widely believed that [[general relativity]] hides every singularity behind an event horizon, making naked singularities impossible. This is referred to as the "cosmic censorship hypothesis". However, in 1991 Stuart Shapiro and Saul Teukolsky performed computer simulations of a rotating plane of dust which indicated that general relativity might allow for "naked" singularities. What these objects would actually look like in such a model is unknown. Nor is it known whether singularities would still arise if the simplifying assumptions used to make the simulation were removed.

Until the early 1990s, it was widely believed that [[general relativity]] hides every singularity behind an event horizon, making naked singularities impossible. This is referred to as the "cosmic censorship hypothesis". However, in 1991 Stuart Shapiro and Saul Teukolsky performed computer simulations of a rotating plane of dust which indicated that general relativity might allow for "naked" singularities. What these objects would actually look like in such a model is unknown. Nor is it known whether singularities would still arise if the simplifying assumptions used to make the simulation were removed.

 

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