Abhas Mitra is an Indian Astrophysicist. He published a paper in the peer reviewed journal Foundation of Physics Letters (December 2000) claiming that an absolute black hole could not exist if Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was adhered to rigorously. Mitra's research in 2002 came to the conslusion that black hole candidates have intense magnetic fields and therefore are not real black holes which cannot have magnetic field.