From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!kh
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Black holes and gravitons
Article-I.D.: unc.3938
Posted: Wed Sep  8 22:33:42 1982
Received: Thu Sep  9 03:37:11 1982

     Saying that the gravitons come from the field of the black hole
and not from the black hole itself doesn't explain anything. There
would be no "field" if the mass in the black hole cannot interact
with the space outside it. This is a serious question, too, since
it was once theorised that black holes might shut themselves off from
the universe entirely and disappear. The answer to this is that
virtual gravitons can and do escape the black hole. Don't ask me
to explain this since I don't know what they are, but I do know that
this is the explanation given. The last time I saw it was in response
to a letter in "Science News" which asked the same question.

				Kenny Hirsch
				duke!unc!kh