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====== On Evaporating Black Holes ====== **Tim Maudlin, Ph.D.** \\ //New York University// <blockquote> Hawking’s discovery of the radiation named after him led to the hypothesis that black holes can shrink and eventually evaporate entirely. That conclusion, in turn, gave rise to the so-called “information loss” paradox. I will argue that there is not, and never has been such a paradox, and that the worries about black hole evaporation have been based on both a mathematical error and on conceptual confusions about the meaning of temporal locutions in a relativistic setting. </blockquote>