naked singularity

British  

noun

1. astronomy an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole See also black hole

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Example Sentences

Lurking at its centre is a mysterious rip in spacetime called the Kefahuchi Tract, a naked singularity which "streams across half the sky, trailing its vast invisible plumes of dark matter".

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012

A naked singularity is such an object outside a black hole, but Hawking believes it can exist only inside a black hole.

From Time Magazine Archive

He lost his bet when someone else proved that you could, in theory, focus gravity waves so precisely as to create a naked singularity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Any real star—which would never be perfectly spherical—could therefore only collapse to form a naked singularity.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Not only is it extremely difficult to create a naked singularity that a wormhole needs, but it also appears that even a naked singularity will tear space travelers to shreds.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife