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String Theorists Say Black Holes Are Multidimensional String 'Supermazes'


Physicists think the insides of black holes may be complex mazes of tangled strings in higher dimensions

A new study suggests that within black holes lie tangled pathways of strings called supermazes, which hold that information in multiple dimensions. Instead they’d be fuzzballs: fuzzy balls of vibrating branes that lack the traditional features of black holes—an event horizon(outer boundary) and a singularity (a single point containing all the mass). “The solutions constructed by Dr. Bena and his collaborators are very interesting, and they are certainly close to being black holes,” says University of California, Santa Barbara, physicist Don Marolf.

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