The Limits of Entropy in a Black Hole

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The Beckenstein bound limits the information that can be stored in a region of space. Does this implication go the other direction? Is there a sense in which any black hole has had a maximal amount of information stored in it? It's still absolutely possible, like I said, that something very, very fundamentally different will be discovered someday down the road. But maybe not. That's all we can say, sorry.

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