Do Naked Singularities Exist? Quantum Effects May Be Shielding The Universe From Uncloaked Infinities

Black holes are indisputably weird. These objects, formed when the center of massive stars collapse in upon itself, are so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape their gravitational pull. Let's, for argument's sake, suppose you have the bad luck to venture too close to a black hole and get pulled past its event horizon but you are lucky enough to make it past the event horizon alive (without being spaghettified). Believe it or not, things get much, much weirder once you cross the event horizon. You are now headed toward the center of the black hole -- the singularity, which is an infinitely small region of infinite density.