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Stephen Hawking proposes that information may not be lost in black holes

AUG 26, 2015
Physics Today

Wall Street Journal : One of the apparent consequences of Stephen Hawking’s theory that black holes leak radiation is that over time they would evaporate and disappear. The information about all the particles they absorbed would then be lost. That concept, however, contradicts a tenet of quantum mechanics that information cannot be lost or destroyed. On Tuesday, at a conference at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, Hawking presented a new theory about how that information might be preserved: Instead of being stored in the interior of a black hole, the information may be stored in its boundary, the event horizon, and then carried away by the emitted radiation.

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