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Re: No Hair


Jim Green writes:

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

I assume that this is a typographical error made by the book publisher.
Hawking
probably meant that it has "no air".

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where we call our black holes "subways".