Hawking Says, There are no black holes.

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Stephen Hawking's recent paper challenges the conventional understanding of black holes by proposing the existence of "apparent horizons" instead of event horizons. This new concept suggests that matter and energy are temporarily held by these apparent horizons before being released in a scrambled form, contradicting the classical notion that nothing can escape a black hole. Hawking emphasizes that a complete understanding of this phenomenon requires a unified theory of gravity and quantum mechanics, which remains elusive. His work aligns with previous theories, such as the fuzzball proposal, and raises questions about the nature of information preservation in black hole physics.

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In his paper Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes Hawking wrote:
"The absence of event horizons mean that there are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time. This suggests that black holes should be redefined as metastable bound states of the gravitational field"
Black holes still exist. Watch this:
 
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Let's not necropost threads that were sketchy to begin with.
 

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