There are no black holes in the sense of a region of spacetime from which nothing can escape. Instead, there are apparent horizons which persist for a time and then vanish.
— Stephen Hawking Contemporary

Black holes, cosmology

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In a paper published online, challenging conventional understanding of black holes.

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2014

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/866031-there-are-no-black-holes-in-the-sense-of

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