Researcher shows that black holes do not exist

Researcher shows that black holes do not exist: She and Hawking both agree that as a star collapses under its own gravity, it produces Hawking radiation. However, in her new work, Mersini-Houghton shows that by giving off this radiation, the star also sheds mass. So much so that as it shrinks it no longer has the density to become a black hole.
Before a black hole can form, the dying star swells one last time and then explodes. A singularity never forms and neither does an event horizon.

A black hole in a bath: Big physics on a bench-top - physics-math - 10 March 2014 - New Scientist

A black hole in a bath: Big physics on a bench-top - physics-math - 10 March 2014 - New Scientist

Supersymmetry...  One of its central predictions is that there should be more than one Higgs particle... they might have found some clue as to where those extra particles might be – in superfluid helium-3... The discovered Higgs weighs in at around 125 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). Studying the spectrum of excitations in the superfluid helium suggests Higgs particles should also exist at energies of 210 GeV and 325 GeV. These possibilities are not excluded by results collected so far at the LHC...

By concentrating laser light into a very small spot within a waveguide made of a glass block, he can temporarily change the refractive index of the glass so that it slows down subsequent laser pulses and ultimately repels them. "What makes these analogue experiments so powerful is that from a photon or a water wave's perspective, it has no way of distinguishing whether it is crossing the event horizon of a real black hole or is in a waveguide under some weird constraints," he says.

Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox - space - 20 June 2013 - New Scientist

Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox - space - 20 June 2013 - New Scientist:  First, the pair showed that these space-time tunnels, usually described by the maths of general relativity, also emerge from quantum theory, if two black holes are entangled. It's as if the wormhole is the physical manifestation of entanglement.

The pair then extended this idea to a single black hole and its Hawking radiation, resulting in a new kind of wormhole (see diagram). Crucially, they suggest that this wormhole, which links a black hole and its Hawking radiation, may not be a problem for quantum monogamy in the way that normal entanglement is. As a result, the firewall needn't appear, preserving relativity

Gravity-less toy black hole solves cosmic puzzles

Gravity-less toy black hole solves cosmic puzzles: His team modelled a minimal black hole, defined only by having an inside and an outside, using quantum theory. To their surprise, they found that this object reproduces a lot of the features of real black holes that are thought to rely on gravity, including Hawking radiation, which could occur via a process called quantum tunneling.

This chimes with suggestions that gravity is not a fundamental component of the universe but an emergent property of quantum mechanics, just as waves are an emergent property of water molecules.

How To Build A Black Hole Laser - Technology Review

How To Build A Black Hole Laser - Technology Review: Their idea is to create a black hole next to a white hole so that their event horizons are separated by just a few hundred micrometres and create a small cavity. Then they show that when light is fired into this cavity, it is reflected off the white hole horizon onto the black hole horizon, back to the white again and so on...
Their real triumph, however, is in showing how such a device could be made in the lab...
...a very intense beam can create a huge gradient in the refractive index. This gradient can be so steep that it behaves like an event horizon. In fact, a single pulse can create black hole horizon at its leading edge and a white hole horizon at its trailing edge.