is Hawkins, of Black Hole fame still alive?
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Yes...and just paid off his bet to John Preskill in regards to whether information can escape from black holes.\n\nIn 1997 the three cosmologists Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne and John Preskill made a famous bet as to whether information that enters a black hole ceases to exist -- that is, whether the interior of a black hole is changed at all by the characteristics of particles that enter it.\n\nIt now looks like Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne may owe John Preskill a set of encyclopedias of his choice, since physicists at Ohio State University 'have derived an extensive set of equations that strongly suggest that the information continues to exist -- bound up in a giant tangle of strings that fills a black hole from its core to its surface.'
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A Black hole is a Quantum Singularity in which so much matter energy, be it solid, liquid, gas, or particle matter evaporated states are attracted to it through the quantum gravitational attraction, and once they enter into the singularity those states are crunched into a quantum compressed state in which matter energy will exist with absolutely no function, and the quantum gravity state is so strong nothing at all, not even light quanta can escape this state so long as it remains stable.\n\nAlso nothing at all can travel through a Black hole it is a supper solid mass, which will crunch any, and everything which enters it, if you here that it is a gateway to another universe, or you can pass through it, the person telling you this is probably watching to many Disney movies.\n\nA worm hole is completely different state of function, and actually folds space with respect to an energy vortex which I believe occurs naturally under specific conditions, and can also be created, however no person has created one to my knowledge at this time, with respect to this time line which we are now living in, and observing, although if they have then I feel positive that it would be labeled top secret, and we would know be the wiser to that knowledge.
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If you believe Stefan Hawkins then one billion billion. Atleast i believe him.
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I think he was a thoughtful person and a brilliant lyricist, but I wouldn't call him a prophet by any means.\n\nAnd no, I don't think he's still alive. That's just wishful thinking on the part of conspiracy theorists.
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a black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing can escape because of gravity, and yes, they exist.  this was not a very detailed answer, but i may write more later.  you can follow the link below.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
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He is still alive, 76 years old, retired and living in Palos Verdes Estates, California.\n\nArmstrong subsequently held the position of Deputy Associate Administrator for Aeronautics, NASA Headquarters Office of Advanced Research and Technology, from 1970 to 1971. He resigned from NASA in 1971.\n\nRegards,
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We can only theorize about the physics that happens there.  Nothing escapes black holes, not even light.  Everything is crushed to sub-atomic densities and stays there.  They suck up everything and give out nothing ( like some people).\n\nSome believe that the entire universe will eventually be consumed by its black holes.  Don't worry, not in your lifetime.\n\n\nOh, Bermuda?  Relax.  Black holes require matter densities higher than the sun, higher than neutron stars.  There's nothing even close to that on earth.
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No. He's alive and well.\n\nYou're thinking of Big Pun.
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It's still currently debatable whether you actually can get information out of a black hole.
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I sincerely hope not Jessy. It might ruin what had otherwise started as a good year. \n\nThe short answer is no. At least not in any time scale that is relevant to us. But if you are interested in black holes; what they are, how they are formed and what damage they can inflict, try this URL:\n\nhttp://space.about.com/cs/blackholes/index.htm\n\nThe site is very informative and will tell you all you need to know.
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Yes... in theory and in practice.  X-ray and gamma-ray burst as ascertion disk of material accelerates towards the black hole.  (www.nasa.gov)  \n\nAnd (in theory) Hawkins Radiation can escape from the black hole.  This is based on the uncertainty principle where there's a possibility of a particle being outside of the event horizon.
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It might be, or it might be a neutron star. We do not really know. \n\nThere are some other objects in the sky which are much more certainly black holes, from their masses and other properties.
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Well, black holes are mysterious simply because they are regions where light itself cannot escape!  If you go by general relativity black holes are singularities where space and time lose their meaning in the rational sense!  As for black holes leading to some location, most likely that is not the case.  Such an object is a wormhole, which is a theoretical solution to Einstein's field equations like black holes are.  But, wormholes have not been observed in nature and they are unstable to the point where if even a tiny amount of mass enters the wormhole it will collapse it and destroy the matter before it ever gets to the other side!  So, that being true a black hole has no opening somewhere else, because if it did it would collapse the same way.  However, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes do dissipate over many billions of years because of quantum tunneling.  Turns out some matter/energy actually gets out of the black hole!  So, we still have alot to learn about the nature of black holes, because we still have to learn alot about gravity!
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Yers, I believe he is still alive. Although, theoretically, he would be 84 years old by now.
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unless this is a "zen" question, it doesn't "go" anywhere.  A black hole is a former star that has died and collapsed in upon itself and had its mass "infinitely" compressed into a tiny tiny volume.
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Not much is known about black holes. What is known is only an estimate of how it might work.
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During the time when atmospheric testing was still being done, several tests of nuclear bombs were done in the far upper atmosphere (nearby space). Certainly no black holes were created. There were brief electrical disruptions and the explosions were spherical, rather than mushroom cloud shaped, but otherwise they were simply big explosions. The energy associated to even a small black hole is many, many times more than anything we have ever created on earth.