Earlier this week, Stephen Hawking shook up the world when he announced that he had uncovered the solution to the black hole information paradox at a conference in Stockholm. When particles fall into (or create) a black hole, information is encoded on the black hole’s surface, but when the black hole decays into radiation, that information appears to be lost, as the radiation is thermal.
Image credit: E. Siegel.
But perhaps the information is stored on the event horizon, and can be encoded into the outgoing radiation thanks to the interplay of gravitation and matter. Details should be forthcoming in a paper to be released next month by Hawking, Malcom Perry and Andrew Strominger.
Image credit: Dana Berry/NASA, of a neutron star (L) and a black hole (R), via http://ift.tt/Ttbgp2.
Sabine Hossenfelder — attending the conference — has the full story.
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1JjZ4e0
Earlier this week, Stephen Hawking shook up the world when he announced that he had uncovered the solution to the black hole information paradox at a conference in Stockholm. When particles fall into (or create) a black hole, information is encoded on the black hole’s surface, but when the black hole decays into radiation, that information appears to be lost, as the radiation is thermal.
Image credit: E. Siegel.
But perhaps the information is stored on the event horizon, and can be encoded into the outgoing radiation thanks to the interplay of gravitation and matter. Details should be forthcoming in a paper to be released next month by Hawking, Malcom Perry and Andrew Strominger.
Image credit: Dana Berry/NASA, of a neutron star (L) and a black hole (R), via http://ift.tt/Ttbgp2.
Sabine Hossenfelder — attending the conference — has the full story.
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1JjZ4e0
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