Black holes don’t erase information, scientists say
Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 13:00
in Astronomy & Space
Shred a document, and you can piece it back together. But send information into a black hole, and it's lost forever. A new study finds that -- contrary to what some physicists have argued for the years -- information is not lost once it has entered a black hole. The research presents explicit calculations showing how information is, in fact, preserved.