Black hole magnetic field engines detected for the first time

Black hole magnetic field engines detected for the first time

Astronomers have detected magnetic fields outside the black hole horizon at the center of Milky Way for the firs time, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) announced on December 3, 2015. Magnetic fields of this type have long been considered to serve as…

Hawking still in the dark on black holes

Hawking still in the dark on black holes

In a new online paper titled Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes, the 72-year-old scientist Stephen Hawking says, "There are no black holes — in the sense from which light can't escape to infinity."

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