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