Birmingham University's Black Holes

Yesterday, a picture was shown on BBC television supposedly of two 'black holes' merging.  This was a finding of some researchers at Birmingham University.   The average person might think they were looking at a real picture.  But they would be wrong.  The picture was a mathematical model imagined by the researchers.  That also applies to the other 'black holes' merging which the researchers say they have found.

In his book Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks, South African astronomer Hilton Ratcliffe wrote (see page 273), quoting words written by Stephen Hawking in January 2014: "I take this as indicating that ... there would be no event horizons and no firewalls.  The absence of event horizons means that there are no black holes -- in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity."  Hawking had recanted.  Ratcliffe warns against metamathematicians (see page 262).