Space Sciences Stephen Hawking's new thinking about event horizons, and blackholes

I think I heard about this at the time. I think the term used was "grey holes" because some light / energy / information is able to escape.
 
The title is misleading, he didn't say there were no black holes, he postulated that the event horizon was of a different nature than we believed
 
Not your fault Blobbenstein, you were just quoting the title of the article in Nature.
Anymore journalists do this all the time, going for spectacular instead of accurate in their headlines.
Bugs me.
 
yakherder said:
I saw the movie Event Horizon, I know what's really going on,
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Dropkick said:
Not your fault Blobbenstein, you were just quoting the title of the article in Nature.
Anymore journalists do this all the time, going for spectacular instead of accurate in their headlines.
Bugs me.
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partly it was wishful thinking. I don't believe in the event horizon, and singularity, and I look forward to the day when Hawking says that he doesn't as well.
I think black 'holes' are just complicated collapsing bodies. Some people think that they are eternally collapsing objects(ECOs). Some people believe in some kind of non-understood pressure that keeps them from collapsing further. My thinking is that time dilation should be enough to prevent a singularity forming.

One thing an ECO would explain, is how a black 'hole' could retain angular momentum(spin). How could a singularity retain spin?
 
Blobbenstein said:
partly it was wishful thinking. I don't believe in the event horizon, and singularity, and I look forward to the day when Hawking says that he doesn't as well.
I think black 'holes' are just complicated collapsing bodies. Some people think that they are eternally collapsing objects(ECOs). Some people believe in some kind of non-understood pressure that keeps them from collapsing further. My thinking is that time dilation should be enough to prevent a singularity forming.

One thing an ECO would explain, is how a black 'hole' could retain angular momentum(spin). How could a singularity retain spin?
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ECO's are fine as a mathematical concept, but I believe in the real world there has to be a limit to how much an object can be compressed, and once they reach that point, the addition of new matter is just going to increase it's size.

And as I plan to capture a singularity and use the spin to provide myself with free power, it's my belief that singularities maintain their spin through magic! (as anything else might crush this dream) (P.S. this is also how I plan to capture and "tame" my singularity).
 
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