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XorNotyesterday at 8:49 PM0 repliesview on HN

Common sense - the experience gained from your common everyday experience of reality - does not apply in black holes.

Common sense would tell you they can't exist at all because you can't compress atoms - you have lived your entire life with atoms being entirely incompressible for the practical purpose of anything you do.

Leaning on common sense to discuss fundamental physics has been wrong since round about the start of the practice of physics.