Figure showing sections through marginal surfaces in a ‘snapshot’ of the researchers’ simulation. The apparent horizons are the three dark lines (the newly formed one is outside and contains the two ...

An event horizon has been defined as an invisible cloak covering a black hole that allows nothing -- not even light -- to escape. The option proposed by Hawking's paper is that black holes simply ...

Stephen Hawking puts forward new theory about black holes Reuters Stephen Hawking has put forward a new theory about black holes in a paper posted online, which says event horizons – the gravitational ...

Acclaimed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, one of the creators of modern theory on black holes, has now questioned the existence of the phenomenon known as event horizon around them. In a >paper ...