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Black Holes and the Unification of Asymmetries

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Of all the conceptions of cosmology and astrophysics, perhaps the most intriguing is the black hole (or “frozen star,” as it is sometimes called): a hole in space with a definite edge, over which anything can fall in — but nothing can escape, because of a gravitational field so strong that even radiation is irreversibly trapped and held by it; a thermodynamic sink which drastically curves space and twists time.

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