In this lyrical Essay, the astronomer Richard Dyer explores how the remarkable ‘amnesia’ of black holes – which contain no trace of their history, nor any distinguishing features – elucidates the fundamental physics governing our own storied and feature-rich world
aeon.coBlack holes ring like bells. What happens next is stranger | Aeon EssaysA black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history. Why?
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