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Article: Hawking: Black holes spit out their contents
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 22, 2004
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DUBLIN, Ireland -- After 29 years of thinking about it, Stephen
Hawking says he was wrong about black holes.
The renowned Cambridge University physicist formally presented a
paper Wednesday arguing that black holes, the celestial vortexes
formed from collapsed stars, preserve traces of objects swallowed up
and eventually could spit bits out "in a mangled form." Last week, he
revealed he had changed his long-held thinking on black holes.
Hawking's radical new theory caps his three-decade struggle to
explain a paradox in scientific thinking: How can objects really
"disappear" inside a black hole and leave no trace, as he long
believed, when subatomic theory says matter can be transformed but ...