Hawking revolutionizes black hole physics again

According to renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, one of the most frequently repeated "certain facts" about black holes - the notion of an event horizon beyond which nothing can go - is incompatible with quantum physics. He published his opinion on the Internet, and also explained in an interview with Nature.

Hawking softens the concept of "a hole from which nothing can get out." For according to Einstein's theory of relativity both energy and information can come out of it. However, theoretical experiments by physicist Joe Polchinski of the Kavli Institute in California show that this impenetrable event horizon must be something like a wall of fire, a decaying particle, to be consistent with quantum physics.

Hawking's proposal "Visible horizon"in which matter and energy are temporarily stored and then released in a distorted form. More precisely, this is a departure from the explicit concept black hole boundary. Instead, there are huge space-time fluctuationsin which it is difficult to speak of a sharp separation of the black hole from the surrounding space. Another consequence of Hawking's new ideas is that matter is temporarily trapped in a black hole, which can "dissolve" and release everything from the inside.