as far as i see the "singularity" at the center of black hole is just a mathematical artifact of the smoothness of the GR. And while that smoothness is a valid approximation at macro scales, by all the accounts the world isn't that smooth at the micro scales, and similarly to white dwarfs and neutron stars it seems naturally for a black hole core to be some next step of degenerate matter, something like quark-gluon soup.

Often I click something related to Quanta and it seems to occupy a very strange target audience. It starts with a title or link that seems lures a reader with in-depth knowledge of some subjects. I think most readers see that title and get excited about all kinds of things like a simplified introduction to subjects they weren't able to grasp in the past or someones unique perspective that might help them better understand the topic.

Instead the article is actually the story and history of some people involved. That's an interesting article as well, but I think it's a different title.