Black holes aren’t black

MAR 26, 2026

A half century after the discovery of Hawking radiation, we are still dealing with the quantum puzzle it exposed.

DOI: 10.1063/pt.4750211fe6

Claire Lamman

A scrollable comic illustrating the black hole information paradox.

More about the authors

Claire Lamman is a cosmologist, science communicator, and postdoctoral researcher at the Ohio State University in Columbus. More of her work can be found at https://cmlamman.github.io .

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