{"id":136838,"date":"2022-03-14T06:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/wormholes-shortcuts-connecting-two-points-in-spacetime-help-resolve-black-hole-information-paradox"},"modified":"2022-03-14T06:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T13:22:20","slug":"wormholes-shortcuts-connecting-two-points-in-spacetime-help-resolve-black-hole-information-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/wormholes-shortcuts-connecting-two-points-in-spacetime-help-resolve-black-hole-information-paradox","title":{"rendered":"Wormholes \u2014 Shortcuts Connecting Two Points in Spacetime \u2014 Help Resolve Black Hole Information Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wormholes-shortcuts-connecting-two-points-in-spacetime-help-resolve-black-hole-information-paradox2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A mathematical analysis helps illuminate the puzzle over how information escapes from a black hole.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A RIKEN physicist and two colleagues have found that a wormhole\u2014a bridge connecting distant regions of the Universe\u2014helps to shed light on the mystery of what happens to information about matter consumed by black holes.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity predicts that nothing that falls into a black hole can escape its clutches. But in the 1970s, Stephen Hawking calculated that black holes should emit radiation when quantum mechanics, the theory governing the microscopic realm, is considered. \u201cThis is called black hole evaporation because the black hole shrinks, just like an evaporating water droplet,\u201d explains Kanato Goto of the RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mathematical analysis helps illuminate the puzzle over how information escapes from a black hole. A RIKEN physicist and two colleagues have found that a wormhole\u2014a bridge connecting distant regions of the Universe\u2014helps to shed light on the mystery of what happens to information about matter consumed by black holes. Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136838","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}