Black holes are like the grand edge cases of nature, places where our understanding of quantum and classical mechanics breaks down. They have forced physicists to face some truly bizarre ideas, such as the possibility that our universe may be a hologram with all of its information stored on a massive two dimensional surface surrounding us. They are places of paradox: it might actually be true that
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