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Published online 7 November 2007 | Nature 450, 147 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450147a
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Peering into the heart of a black hole
A glimpse beyond the event horizon.
Quantum mechanics might be capable of stripping bare a black hole to reveal the mysterious and unseeable 'singularity' that exists at its heart1, say George Matsas and André da Silva of the São Paulo State University in Brazil.
It has long been suspected that these singularities — where the known laws of physics break down — are always decorously veiled behind the 'event horizon', a boundary beyond which light cannot escape from the fearsome gravitational pull of a black hole.
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