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 ...

In 1997, the three cosmologists made a famous bet as to whether information that enters a black hole ceases to exist -- that is, whether the interior of a black hole is changed at all by 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 ...

The event horizon of a black hole is a spherical or spheroidal region from which nothing, not even light, can escape. But outside the event horizon, the black hole is predicted to emit radiation.

Black holes are very real, but are also a theoretical nightmare. Black holes are very real, but are also a theoretical nightmare. It turns out that in order to make sense of their paradoxical nature, ...

Scientists may have just solved the famous Hawking information paradox. The paradox states that information can neither be emitted from a black hole or preserved inside forever. But the laws of ...

Are black holes as simple as they appear, or is there more to their story? Theories that attempt to resolve the so-called black hole information paradox predict that black holes are much more ...

Tulika Bose: This is 60-Second Science. I'm Tulika Bose. You probably already know what a black hole is, but have you ever heard of the black hole information paradox? I'm here with Clara Moskowitz, ...

Scientists say they’re close to proving a mindboggling problem related to black holes—one that dates back to Stephen Hawking’s theories from 50 years ago. The key mechanism is something that sounds ...

Two new studies of a solution to the paradox titled "Quantum hair and black hole information" and "Quantum Hair from Gravity" have been published in the journals Physics Letters B and Physical Review ...

The finding suggests that black holes are not smooth, featureless entities as scientists have long thought. Instead, they are stringy "fuzzballs." COLUMBUS, Ohio – Stephen Hawking and Kip ...