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Maybe our understanding of black holes is woefully incomplete and the paradox is a result of our own ignorance.

• antonvs 7y ago
  That's more or less what the "paradox" is telling us, and research like the the OP is attempting to address. It's a conflict in predictions involving different theories - quantum mechanics only, vs. quantum mechanics plus general relativity. It's a "paradox" in the sense that the two approaches reach conclusions that contradict each other - both can't be right. The conflict implies that one or both theories are incomplete or incorrect in some way - which we already knew, because quantum mechanics and general relativity are known to be incompatible with each other in various ways. Such conflicts are rich ground for discovering new physics, because they highlight very specific weaknesses in existing theories. That's why people like Hawking, Susskind, and many others have spent so much time on this.