Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if you analyze the ashes of the fire, the smoke and the flames to re-create ...

One of the greatest enigmas of our time revolves around understanding black holes. The vague term “singularity” is often tossed around to feign a sense of understanding of a topic that has perplexed ...

Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event horizon — yet new research suggests it may secretly leak information. That leakage would appear in subtle signatures in gravitational waves, and now ...

In this video, we explore the grand paradox of black holes and their implications for information conservation in the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

When it comes to the sciences, sometimes making two observations or measurements that appear to contradict each other is the best thing that could possibly happen. These apparent paradoxes help lead ...

You might think it takes a lot of energy to escape Earth's gravity, but our planet's pull is tiny compared to many other things in the Universe. Same for our Sun, the galaxy, or even an extreme object ...

Researchers make progress on a vexing problem about how black holes evolve. If there’s one misconception people have about black holes, it’s that nothing ever escapes them. As physicist Stephen ...

Stephen Hawking announced during a lecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden on Tuesday that he has potentially solved the Information Paradox. The paradox a conflict ...

The black hole information paradox raises a lot of questions. When something goes into a black hole some theories state that ‘physical information’ could be gone. This means that physical states would ...

The universe really likes its information. It doesn't like to create new information, and it doesn't like to destroy any of its existing information. In fact, "like" is far too weak of a word. As far ...