Is it possible that black holes operate on the same principle as white dwarfs and neutron stars i.e. degeneracy pressure of some other fermion, and will eventually get so massive as to collapse again?
We don’t know of any further mechanism that would halt collapse of the black hole, but it’s possible there is one, involving as yet unknown physics. We don’t really know if the black hole inside its event horizon is a true “singularity” (point of truly infinitely small dimension) or whether something else happens. The physics of such extreme conditions is a topic of current research.
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