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Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h... by DiogenesKynikos on Thursday May 12, 2022 @04:28PM (#31359790)
General Relativity has pretty much nothing to do with planet formation.

Newtonian gravity is good enough for that problem, and the problems have nothing to do with not understanding gravity well enough. The problems have to do with things like complex chemistry in stellar accretion disks, how grains in these disks stick to one another to eventually form rocks, and so on.

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Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h... by JacobThreeThree on Friday May 13, 2022 @11:40AM (#31369033)
Whether the problems with the models are with general relativity, Newtonian gravity or other issues, the point is that the models have problems.
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Re:Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the h... by DiogenesKynikos on Friday May 13, 2022 @01:16PM (#31370239)
Which models are you talking about?

The fact that some models somewhere have problems has no bearing on whether the image reconstruction for Sgr A* is valid.

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