The fact that black holes are solitons is not very well known. Abdus Salam and others outlined this issue several years ago. Stephen Hawking predicted that Black Holes evaporate, and this is a quantum effect on classical gravity governed by the highly nonlinear Einstein-Hilbert equations. Leone Villari, Ewan Wright, Fabio Biancalana and Claudio Conti report on … Continue reading Black holes evaporate, black holes are solitons, solitons evaporate !