Yi Ling

Usually, a black hole is an abyss with a point-like dip at the center, where density is infinite and everything breaks down. Einstein and Schwarzschild described such a scenario. But infinity is a sign that the theory stumbled.

A black hole sitting on a thin cosmic membrane (brane) resembles a heavy ball stretching an elastic sheet. In classical physics, it is bald — only mass, charge, and rotation. But add a scalar field (an invisible substance like temperature), and the hole can spontaneously grow 'fur' from this field.