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Black Hole Horizons Behave Like Materials

Black holes are a kind of material whose horizons have physical properties like viscosity and electrical conductivity and that wobble, and the mathematics of black hole surfaces has turned out to be very similar to the mathematics of fluids and superconductors, which is why condensed matter physics now heavily uses black hole mathematics.

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Speaker

Leonard Susskind

Evidence Quote

Black holes are kind of material. Their horizons... do things. They have viscosity. They have electrical conductivity.

Source

45 | Leonard Susskind on Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity, and HolographySean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:10:07 AM

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