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It is our intention to give the non-expert reader a book at hand which enables him or her to recognize whether there are black holes around or not. In the various lectures of our school, the lecturers tried to address this question from theoretical as well as from observational points of view. In the panel discussion some of our lecturers were asked to sum up the present state of knowledge in the form of relatively short statements. They were explicitely requested to answer the fundamental question "Do black holes exist or not"? We hope that you will enjoy the output of our panel as much as we did. The Editors
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Collmar, W., Straumann, N., Chakrabarti, S.K., 't Hooft, G., Seidel, E., Israel, W. Panel Discussion: The Definitive Proofs of the Existence of Black Holes. In: Hehl, F., Kiefer, C., Metzler, R. (eds) Black Holes: Theory and Observation . Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 514. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49535-2_22
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