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Have we solved the black hole information paradox?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There a Pattern for My Banana?

There's a paradox about what happens between these two concepts of the universe inside of a black hole exactly. We think, thanks to hawking radiation, that black holes are not actually black. They give off little bit of radiation. When they do that, they lose their mass because they're giving off energy. This is called black hole evaporation, and eventually they disappear. And so if your information about your banana was inside the black hole, and then the black hole evaporates, where's the information? Did it disappear from the universe, you know? Or did it somehow get leaked out in the hawking radiation? Is there a smell of banana once a black hole evaporaten?

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