naked singularities

In this month's issue of Scientific American, there is an article postulating the possibility of having a singularity without having a event horizon. This has many, many implications to our knowledge of black holes, which are singularities that are shrouded by an event horizon, or boundary or point of no return for things being pulled into a black hole. The mechanism for creating these naked singularities arises from solutions to Einstein's General Relativity equations, that take density variations in account during star collapse. These solutions still do not take pressure against gravity, the force that keeps a star from collapsing. There are also other mechanisms that could cause a singularity to loose it's event horizon, by either adding spin or an electric charge to the singularity, but these solutions prove even MORE complicated than the already insanely complicated solutions. This also means that humans may finally be able to directly detect singularities, where as as of now the only means we have of detecting black holes is by watching the material and celestial bodies that are gravitationally bound to said black holes. We may also be able to create a singularity that we could see and detect, depending on how much mass and/or energy is required to make a singularity. Seems pretty cool to me, and it could shed light on a otherwise dark topic.