Science, Religion, and Philosophy News No Escape From Black Holes? Stephen Hawking Points to a Possible Exit June 14, 2016June 14, 2016 0 Comment CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — “A black hole has no hair.” That mysterious, koan-like statement by the theorist and legendary phrasemaker John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton has stood for half a century as one of the brute pillars of modern physics.