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 ...

Artist view of a black hole ringing down into a stable state. Credit: Yasmine Steele at University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign Artist view of a black hole ringing down into a stable state. Credit: ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information. That ...

Theoretical research led by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga of the University of Portsmouth challenges the ...

A clear overview of the black hole information paradox and the ongoing scientific debate about whether physical information ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Do black holes destroy information? Physicists have been trying to answer that question for decades, because the idea that black holes could irreversibly destroy information ...

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