Discussion
Changing from continuous spacetime to quantized spacetime produces a radical change in the description of what in continuous spacetime is called a black hole.
In continuous spacetime, the entire mass of the star is removed from spacetime when it passes beyond the event horizon and on through a central singularity (undefined by definition) that may have a diameter of the Planck length.
In quantized spacetime, the original star’s mass, spin, and charge remain in spacetime, expressed in photons. Some of the unidentified energy making up 95% of the universe remains within the black star but does not add to its mass or gravity.
The assumption that there is only one photon per quantum may be questioned. In spacetime, photons are recognized as bosons. This means any number of photons may share the same state. That is, multiple photons may exist within a spacetime quantum and are thus at the same place at the same time. However, the quanta surfacing the black shell are two-dimensional. Each provides a two-dimensional surface where, with the help of gravity, bosons or fermions may become anyons.
To achieve a black shell temperature matching the accepted photon temperature of a black hole calculated by Michael Hawking, there must be only one photon per quantum. If a quantum were to contain more than one photon, each photon would be of a lower energy for the correct total energy within the quantum to be present. Each would then have a lower frequency than a single photon of the same total energy. This would give a a lower temperature than calculated but give a greater intensity of radiation. The accepted temperature can be reached only it there is just one photon per quantum. And this implies that the photon is acting like a fermion.
Conclusion
Quantized spacetime provides an alternative view of a gravitationally collapsed star and suggests why the nature of 95% of the mass and energy in the universe has yet to be discovered. The prediction of a singularity at the center of the collapsed object is satisfied. The term singularity is used by mathematicians to characterize a problem that cannot be solved. This would appear to be the nature of the bulk energy the center in question. Being dimensionless, it has no center. There is no requirement for energy to exit through the central singularity, and no requirement for an entirely new physics, other than recognizing that spacetime is quantized.