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Could someone explain to me why matter falling into a black hole might imply that information would be annihilated? It seems to me that the information is stil
by evincarofautumn 12y ago
Could someone explain to me why matter falling into a black hole might imply that information would be annihilated?
It seems to me that the information is still present, though no longer accessible from outside the black hole. That doesn’t seem at odds with the preservation of information in any way.
- gizmo686 12y agoI am not a physicist. The problem comes from Hawking radiation. Over time, the matter/energy absorbed by black holes does get released through Hawking radiation. However, this emission contains no information about the matter that originally went into the black hole (it is entirely dependent on the mass, angular momentum, and charge of the black hole).