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[Mr Swine]

On reading a new paper by Stephen Hawking that appeared online this week, you would have been forgiven in thinking the world-renowned British physicist was spoofing us. Hawking's unpublished work — titled "Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes" and uploaded to the arXiv preprint service — declares that "there are no black holes."

ANALYSIS: Hawking: Great Scientist, Bad Gambler

Keep in mind that Hawking's bedrock theory of evaporating black holes revolutionized our understanding that the gravitational behemoths are not immortal; through a quantum quirk they leak particles (and therefore mass) via "Hawking radiation" over time. What's more, astronomers are finding new and exciting ways to detect black holes — they are even working on an interferometer network that may, soon, be able to directly image a black hole's event horizon!

Has Hawking changed his mind? Are black holes merely a figment of our collective imaginations? Are all those crank theories about "alternative" theories of the Cosmos true?!

Fortunately not.

Stephen Hawking hasn't changed his mind about the whole black hole thing, but he has thrown a complex physics paradox into the limelight, one that has been gnawing at the heart of theoretical physics for the last 18 months.

http://www.space.com/24418-stephen-hawking-no-black-holes.html

Very interesting article, what do you guys think?

 

[ComputerMKII]

All I know about black holes I've seen in sci fi shows so I bet I actually know nothing about them.

 

[Kraftwerk]

I don't know too much about this field, but haven't we observed stars getting sucked into black holes?

 

[Oblivion]

First I learn that lava can't even melt a soda can and now black holes don't exist?

Not a good week for fans of destructive forces in nature.

 

[ReRixo]

Where does he say black holes don't exist? He's saying that our understanding of them needs to be reworked as he doesn't believe black holes have an event horizon.

I think this was already posted a few days ago.

 

[Easystride]

There is no such thing as black holes; there is only Hawking-holes.

 

[terrisus]

Where does he say black holes don't exist? He's saying that our understanding of them needs to be reworked as he doesn't believe black holes have an event horizon.

I think this was already posted a few days ago.

Pretty much

 

[Stumpokapow]

dupe http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=757406