black holes quotes

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My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

Stephen Hawking

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Stephen Hawking

Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.

Stephen Hawking

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

Stephen Hawking