How the Inside of a Black Hole Is Secretly on the Outside
Mysterious “islands” help to explain what happens to information that falls into a black hole
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Mysterious “islands” help to explain what happens to information that falls into a black hole
(For the Holiday Season, from Christmas through New Year’s Day. we’ll post 2020’s most viewed articles as ranked by Google Analytics.) It has been said that Newton gave us answers; Stephen Hawking gave us questions. A trio of scientists are one step closer to resolving the black-hole information paradox, one of the most intriguing physics mysteries of our time. “That is the most exciting thing that has happened in this subject, I think, since Hawking,” said one of the co-authors, Donald Marolf of the University of California, Santa Barbara. “It’s from that mysterious area —...