He got the decay part right, but that deal about the event horizon has confused everyone for 40 years, but made for some good movies.
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129552.400-fiery-black-hole-debate-creates-cosmological-wild-west.html#.UwA-EM6YbyQ > > > Last week famed physicist Stephen Hawking caused an uproar with his > assertion that black holes do not > exist<http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24937-stephen-hawkings-new-theory-offers-black-hole-escape.html>- > at least not as we've defined them for the past 40 years. Rather than > letting nothing, not even light, escape their grasp, Hawking says that this > "point of no return" is a fallacy, and black holes will sometimes let > trapped light back out. >
