Stephen Hawking On Black Holes: 'There Is A Way Out'
- 8 years ago
In a recently published paper, a team of physicists including Stephen Hawking theorize that black holes have ‘soft hairs’ which can provide a log-like record about the objects that have been lost inside.
Black holes have been described as somewhat terrifying vortexes that permanently erase anything that enters them, but renowned physicist Stephen Hawking believes otherwise, reports The Independent.
According to the New York Times, he, along with Harvard’s Andrew Strominger and Cambridge University’s Malcolm Perry, recently published a paper contradicting this long-held theory that “black holes have no hair.”
The idea that no information remains after entering a black hole has been debated by scientists because it goes against a principal tenet of physics which says that nothing can ever completely disappear, notes the International Business Times.
In this research, the team has found a middle ground of some retention in the form of “soft hairs.”
An article for the American Physical Society explains that these soft hairs on the black hole’s horizon are composed of photons which get excited “when a charged particle falls into the black hole.”
As such, these outer extensions would keep the equivalent of a virtual log of the objects that have fallen in.
Hawking has been quoted as saying that black holes “are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.”
Black holes have been described as somewhat terrifying vortexes that permanently erase anything that enters them, but renowned physicist Stephen Hawking believes otherwise, reports The Independent.
According to the New York Times, he, along with Harvard’s Andrew Strominger and Cambridge University’s Malcolm Perry, recently published a paper contradicting this long-held theory that “black holes have no hair.”
The idea that no information remains after entering a black hole has been debated by scientists because it goes against a principal tenet of physics which says that nothing can ever completely disappear, notes the International Business Times.
In this research, the team has found a middle ground of some retention in the form of “soft hairs.”
An article for the American Physical Society explains that these soft hairs on the black hole’s horizon are composed of photons which get excited “when a charged particle falls into the black hole.”
As such, these outer extensions would keep the equivalent of a virtual log of the objects that have fallen in.
Hawking has been quoted as saying that black holes “are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.”