{"id":104339,"date":"2020-03-27T09:06:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/black-holes-the-ultimate-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2020-03-27T09:06:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:06:01","slug":"black-holes-the-ultimate-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/black-holes-the-ultimate-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Black holes: The ultimate quantum computers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-holes-the-ultimate-quantum-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2006<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By Maggie Mckee<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of the information that falls into a black hole escapes back out, a controversial new study argues. The work suggests that black holes could one day be used as incredibly accurate quantum computers \u2013 if enormous theoretical and practical hurdles can first be overcome.<\/p>\n<p>Black holes are thought to destroy anything that crosses a point of no return around them called an \u201cevent horizon\u201d. But in the 1970s, Stephen Hawking used quantum mechanics to show black holes do emit radiation, which eventually evaporates them away completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2006 By Maggie Mckee Nearly all of the information that falls into a black hole escapes back out, a controversial new study argues. The work suggests that black holes could one day be used as incredibly accurate quantum computers \u2013 if enormous theoretical and practical hurdles can first be overcome. Black holes are thought [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}