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An account is given of recent advances in mathematical techniques for extending space-times through weak singularities. This gives one more hope of proving a cosmic censorship theorem, and hence of understanding whether the final state of gravitational collapse will indeed be a black hole.
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Clarke, C.J.S. New mathematical approaches to classical censorship problems. J Astrophys Astron 20, 249–257 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02702356
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