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Posted by DickT on May 15, 2002 at 06:31:46:

In Reply to: Re: Two Related Questions posted by Timm on May 14, 2002 at 12:17:58:

In string theory they consider "extremal black holes" in which the radius is close to zero (or Planck length), and the event horizon is crammed down almost onto the singularity. It's in this case that they are able to calculate the Beckstein-Hawking entropy from within their theory, one of the major success of string theory.

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