originally posted in:Secular Sevens
I've seen this everywhere and it's starting to make me mad. Hawking is saying that specific characteristics of event horizons are likely not what physicists have believed them to be for some time. He isn't saying "Black holes don't exist," he's saying that his research indicates we need to revise how black holes are described. Sagittarius A is still a black hole, it just might not behave exactly like we thought.
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If I recall correctly, he basically says if we lose the notion of the event horizon, we lose the idea of a black hole as we understand it as well.
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No, just the technical definition.
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I thought the same thing, he's not dismissing black holes at all.