Stephen Hawking: Black Holes Have 'Hair'

Live Science ^ | 14 Jan, 2016 | Tia Ghos

[MtnClimber]

Black holes may sport a luxurious head of "hair" made up of ghostly, zero-energy particles, says a new hypothesis proposed by Stephen Hawking and other physicists.

The new paper, which was published online Jan. 5 in the preprint journal arXiv, proposes that at least some of the information devoured by a black hole is stored in these electric hairs.

Still, the new proposal doesn't prove that all the information that enters a black hole is preserved.

[dfwgator]

Are we like talking, Oscar Gamble here?

[MtnClimber]

Hmmmm, if the particles have zero energy, how would you measure them?

[Patriot Babe]

Isn’t this consider Wacist?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

But does the carpet match the drapes?

[The Iceman Cometh]

Sometimes, the jokes write themselves.

[AU72]

Sounding like science porn.

[Jack Straw from Wichita]

6’5”, with the afro 6’9”

[dfwgator]

"....and it's gone!"

[Ronald_Magnus]

“Sounding like science porn.”

That’s what I’m thinking. What next, bearded clams?

[builder]

#blackholesmatter

[I want the USA back]

This is what happens when your whole life is equations and a silly-a$$ voice synthesizer.

[BwanaNdege]

But, but, but ... I thought the science was all settled?

[MtnClimber]

I bet the black hole at the center of the Milky Way will choke trying to swallow Al Gore!

[Alas Babylon!]

Maybe they should consider a Brazilian?

[DannyTN]

Here's the Adam's familty with a black hole.

[COBOL2Java]

[Da Coyote]

“That’s what I’m thinking. What next, bearded clams?”

But if I remember correctly, clams DID have legs.

[buwaya]

Yes actually.
I miss that style. It’s gone now.

[buwaya]

That’s the trick. By definition not easy.
This is nearly all theory, a prediction.