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Re: No Hair



What does the list suppose Hawking means when he says that a "black hole has
no hair"?

I think that theorem is due to Werner Israel rather than Hawking.
It refers to combed hair, of course. No one ever seems to point
out that a black hole could certainly have a butch haircut.

Leigh