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For sheer color, you can’t
do much better than a black hole event horizon. It swallows everything without
a trace, but it also evaporates. It may contain a wall of fire created by
disentangling virtual particles. Unless it’s a fuzzball made of fundamental strings,
in which case it has “hair” instead of a firewall.   

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