With the passing of Stephen Hawking, science has lost not only its most recognizable public figure, but also a remarkable researcher into the nature of black holes. While his final paper may have ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

For a half-century, scientists have investigated ways to solve the black hole information paradox—the idea that when black holes evaporate through Hawking radiation, the information inside them ...

While physics tells us that information can neither be created nor destroyed (if information could be created or destroyed, then the entire raison d'etre of physics, that is to predict future events ...

The black hole information paradox has puzzled physicists for decades. New research shows how quantum connections in spacetime itself may resolve the paradox, and in the process leave behind a subtle ...