Listen To Hawking's Second Reith Lecture On Black Holes, Illustrated (bbc.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: The BBC has now put the second of Stephen Hawking's Reith Lectures up on their web site, with accompanying illustrations. It's not 'All you ever wanted to know about Black Holes', but it's an easy introduction to some of the latest thinking on them.

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The lecture didn't cover anything newer than Hawking Radiation. Where's the discussion over the Firewall Paradox?

Anyway, my preferred hypothesis: singularities don't exist, crossable event horizons don't exist, there is no disjoint region of spacetime beyond them, there is no unusual quantum behavior, localized inflation maintains a continuous spacetime metric at black holes by deforming infalling partial motions to a tangential path, matter/energy that falls into a black hole is as thoroughly fried and scrambled as they would be falling into such an extreme environment even if spacetime deformation weren't an issue, but the result is nearly frozen in time, released as the black hole explodes in an inflationary blast - and the Big Bang was a colossal such event.