On a paper by J. Smoller and B. Temple

In a paper dealing with a new formulation of the Oppenheimer-Volkoff (O-V) equations, J. Smoller and B. Temple prove, under mild assumptions on the equation of state, that black holes never form in solutions of the O-V equations. No attempt is made to extend this conclusion to other situations. In the present paper we prove that the concept of black hole is universally inconsistent with the Einstein theory of gravitation.