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Hawking Fills World In on Theory of Black Hole Blowouts
Dublin, Ireland - The world of astrophysics was sent spinning yesterday when Professor Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge University mathematician, backtracked on his 30-year-old theory about black holes.
Hawking, something of a modern-day Einstein, turned his original theory on its head when he revealed that black holes, the mysterious massive bodies formed from collapsed stars, do not destroy everything they consume but instead eventually fire out matter and energy "in a mangled form."