
Have we solved the black hole information paradox?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Black Hole Is Like a Cage Match
The paradox is that it seems like information hits the end of the road in a black hole, whereas clunto mechanics would have you believe that it never ends. The most popular theory until last year was that maybe somehow there is information in that hawking radiation because the black hole surface is not entirely smooth. And that those little wiggles in the event horizon somehow contain the information and influence the hawking radiation. Most physiciss think that must be wrong, that information is not lost, we just have to figure out how it leaks out.
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