If you could collect all the Hawking radiation that evaporated out of a Black hole over trillions of years, every little bit and somehow piece it. together, you should be able to reconstruct the chair. So it's almost like whatever it is, although it's not a chair that went in. All of the things, the blueprint information on that tiny, tiny level, when it comes out, that is still available. If you wanted to rewind the universe and find out what happened previously, then in principle, you could run the clock backwards and figure out what fell into the Black hole in the first place.
Can we use gravitational lensing to view distant planets? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore black holes, quasars, entropy, and more with astrophysicist and host of PBS Space Time, Matt O’Dowd.
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