Hawking Says, There are no black holes.

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Stephen Hawking's recent paper challenges the traditional concept of black holes, proposing that they do not possess event horizons as previously thought. Instead, he introduces the idea of "apparent horizons," which temporarily trap matter and energy but eventually release them in a scrambled form. Hawking emphasizes that while classical theory suggests nothing can escape a black hole, quantum theory allows for the possibility of energy and information escaping. He acknowledges that fully understanding this phenomenon requires a unified theory of gravity and quantum mechanics, which remains elusive. This radical rethinking of black holes has sparked significant debate among physicists regarding its implications for the field.
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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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