&gt; If a black hole can never form, as viewed by me, then black holes don&#x27;t exist.<p>But they do -- the evidence is copious:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.galacticcenter.astro.ucla.edu&#x2F;animations.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.galacticcenter.astro.ucla.edu&#x2F;animations.html</a><p>Arguing that, because the event horizon collapses the time dimension (from the perspective of a distant observer), therefore BHs aren&#x27;t real, is like saying that sum(2^-n,(n,1,oo)) can&#x27;t equal 1 because it&#x27;s an infinite series and an infinity of additions takes too long.<p>Think of black holes as objects of great mass, that have very bright accretion disks, surrounding an event horizon that is perpetually almost forming a singularity but never quite completes it (from the perspective of someone far from the horizon).<p>&gt; This means that time is stopped for the center of mass of the black hole ...<p>From the perspective of a distant observer, the time horizon is located at the event horizon.