Stephen Hawking says fuck you, there’s no black holes
At least not “black holes” as they’re currently defined, where there’s an even horizon, a point at which light or nothing else can escape once it gets sucked in. While his paper has not been peer reviewed, what he’s essentially saying is that because of quantum fluctuation, stuff can and does escape from black holes, which basically just takes the “black” out of black holes. Everyone could just say “Stephen Hawking says things can escape from a black hole”, but instead, it sounds a lot better to say “there are no black holes”.
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