"Ilja Schmelzer" wrote in message
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"George Dishman" schrieb

I have no idea what an aether based theory would say
about the event horizon.

Hi Ilja,

In my ether theory (see gr-qc/0205035),

I still have to learn GR first :-( You are too far
ahead of me at the moment and probably always will be.

which is a metric theory of gravity
with the GR Einstein equations in a natural limit, I have an additional
term
which becomes important near the horizon. It leads to stable "gravastar"
solutions with a size slightly greater than the horizon. (The "slightly"
depends
on a free parameter of the theory. If it is small enough, the frozen star
will
be de-facto indistinguishable from a GR BH from outside.)

About a year or two ago, I remember a study that looked
at a series of binar star systems in which material was
falling onto a compact companion. When they were ordered
by mass, flares from the first three became brighter as
the mass of the compact object increased but for the
remainder they reduced in brightness. The idea was that
the first three were probably neutron stars so as the
mass increased the energy released when matter hit the
surface also increased. The rest were supposedly black
holes and larger holes were duller because matter crossed
the event horizon before releasing its energy in a disk.

Would your model predict the same or ever increasing
brightness? It might give you a test approach.

best regards
George