{"id":236100,"date":"2026-04-28T22:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/bizarre-hawking-radiation-may-smooth-the-jagged-hearts-of-black-holes"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:10:24","slug":"bizarre-hawking-radiation-may-smooth-the-jagged-hearts-of-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/bizarre-hawking-radiation-may-smooth-the-jagged-hearts-of-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre Hawking radiation may smooth the jagged hearts of black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bizarre-hawking-radiation-may-smooth-the-jagged-hearts-of-black-holes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a longstanding pain point for physicists: Their theory of gravity, general relativity, predicts that a black hole must contain a singularity, a point where space and time are infinitely warped and the laws of physics break down.<\/p>\n<p>Many researchers hope that a theory combining gravity and quantum mechanics\u2014if it can ever be discovered\u2014will someday remove the thorn. However, a full-fledged theory of quantum gravity may not be necessary, two theorists argue independently.<\/p>\n<p>A pinch of quantum mechanics\u2014in the form of an effect called Hawking radiation\u2014may suffice, enabling a black hole to form, age, and evaporate without creating a singularity.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hawking\u2019s signature prediction may prevent vexing singularities from forming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a longstanding pain point for physicists: Their theory of gravity, general relativity, predicts that a black hole must contain a singularity, a point where space and time are infinitely warped and the laws of physics break down. Many researchers hope that a theory combining gravity and quantum mechanics\u2014if it can ever be discovered\u2014will someday [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}