{"id":20725,"date":"2016-01-13T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/stephen-hawking-just-published-a-new-solution-to-the-black-hole-information-paradox"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:15:58","slug":"stephen-hawking-just-published-a-new-solution-to-the-black-hole-information-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/stephen-hawking-just-published-a-new-solution-to-the-black-hole-information-paradox","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking just published a new solution to the black hole information paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stephen-hawking-just-published-a-new-solution-to-the-black-hole-information-paradox.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stephen-hawking-explains-how-our-existence-can-escape-a-black-hole\">Last year,<\/a> British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking hinted at research he and a couple of colleagues were working on that could solve the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_hole_information_paradox\">black hole information paradox,<\/a> which states that information about matter that gets destroyed by a black hole, according to Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity, is supposed to be fundamentally conserved, according to our understanding of quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1601.00921v1.pdf\">that paper has finally been posted online<\/a>, and as hinted by Hawking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stephen-hawking-explains-how-our-existence-can-escape-a-black-hole\">back in August<\/a>, the solution to this paradox could be black hole \u2018hairs\u2019 that form on the event horizon, making a kind of two-dimensional holographic imprint of whatever\u2019s been sucked in. He says the existence of these hairs is provable, and their existence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/Stephen-Hawking-8217-s-black-hole-work-proved\/story-28494889-detail\/story.html\">could win him a Nobel Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s back up a bit, because there\u2019s a lot to wrap your head around here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stephen-hawking-just-published-new-solution-to-the-black-hole-information-paradox\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking hinted at research he and a couple of colleagues were working on that could solve the infamous black hole information paradox, which states that information about matter that gets destroyed by a black hole, according to Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity, is supposed to be fundamentally conserved, according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20725","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\/20725","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68847,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20725\/revisions\/68847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}