Solving the black hole information paradox
Research outreach · 2023
A lmost half a century has passed since physicists were first confronted by Stephen Hawking's discovery of the black hole information paradox.Quantum theory says information cannot be destroyed or disappear, but black holes breach the time symmetry of physics.When a black hole evaporates it's gone for good, destroying any information that's fallen into it and emitting thermodynamic equilibrium black-body Hawking radiation that depends only on its diminishing size.