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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 HawkingIt 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 HawkingOnly black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
Stephen HawkingThere are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.
Stephen Hawking