10 Craziest Facts You Didn't Know About Black Holes

6. Chew-black...hole? Chewblacka? Forget It

As part of explaining his theory, Hawking also came up with the idea that black holes were "hairy".

Rather than the surface of a black hole being "bald" and featureless, making them all identical, they actually have many small 2D imprints from particles entering the black hole, creating the "hair" that makes one think of black holes as being some sort of cosmic Cousin It.

The 'hairs' are supposedly picked up by the radiation in Hawking's theory, which is how the black hole loses it's energy.

No, that doesn't mean that shaving your head will stop you from evaporating into the great abyss of space.