Black holes offer a way to another universe, Stephen Hawking says in newly-published paper

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by Andrew Griffin

Things might fall through black holes into alternate universe, according to a newly-published paper by Stephen Hawking.

The professor has laid out a theory that suggests that the holes aren’t quite as black as previously thought.

Rather than destroying everything that goes near them, we might not need to be so afraid of black holes, he said in a paper published this week in Physical Review Letters, written with colleagues Andrew Strominger from Harvard and Malcolm Perry from Cambridge University.

If the work is correct – and the new paper means that the theory, only suggested, has now received approval from other experts – then it could solve a central paradox of black holes.



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[yourpaljoey]

1. Let's go space truckin'

[itsrobert]

2. You first.

I will wait. Maybe a Black Hole today is the equivalent of the 'flat Earth' in the middle ages. Dont sail too far, you will fall off the Earth.

[gordianot]

3. Stephen are you just teasing those Science Fiction fans?

I would make a stupid political joke but would likely land in a Sarah Palin Universe.