2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/447According to a widespread idee fixe, the spherically-symmetric collapse of a sufficiently massive celestial body of spherical shape should generate a black hole. I prove that this process generates simply an ordinary point mass. My argument is model-independent.5 pages, PDF, submitted to Il Nuovo CimentoAstrophysicsGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologytext