The Black Hole Mystery That Keeps Physicist Raphael Bousso Up At Night

Einstein’s General Relativity established that there would be no physical effect marking the location of the black hole’s edge. Recent results have pitted this nearly century old scientific thought against the basic equations of quantum mechanics, with some suggesting that black holes are actually surrounded by firewalls that would instantly incinerate any cosmological explorer. Hear Raphael Bousso’s struggle with the “Firewall Paradox.”

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