{"id":180338,"date":"2024-01-12T15:25:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/a-black-hole-breakthrough-might-actually-solve-the-information-paradox"},"modified":"2024-01-12T15:25:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T21:25:20","slug":"a-black-hole-breakthrough-might-actually-solve-the-information-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/a-black-hole-breakthrough-might-actually-solve-the-information-paradox","title":{"rendered":"A Black Hole Breakthrough Might Actually Solve the Information Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-black-hole-breakthrough-might-actually-solve-the-information-paradox2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The key to understanding our universe lies in two theories\u2014one of the generally-very-big and one of the generally-very-small. Albert Einstein\u2019s Theory of General Relativity explains things like gravity and time, while Quantum Field Theory explores the subatomic world. However, one celestial object frustrates astrophysicists and quantum theorists in equal measure: black holes.<\/p>\n<p>Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/deep-space\/a44913507\/black-hole-speed-limit\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">black holes<\/a> release Hawking radiation (named for famous physicist Stephen Hawking), they eventually evaporate, which seemingly destroys the information that fell into the black hole. However, quantum field theory states that information <em>cannot<\/em> be destroyed. Result? Paradox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key to understanding our universe lies in two theories\u2014one of the generally-very-big and one of the generally-very-small. Albert Einstein\u2019s Theory of General Relativity explains things like gravity and time, while Quantum Field Theory explores the subatomic world. However, one celestial object frustrates astrophysicists and quantum theorists in equal measure: black holes. Because black holes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180338","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=180338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}