Sentences with phrase «holes store information»

Black holes don't just tell us about how black holes store information.

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But when the math says that a black hole's store of information is measured by its surface area, does that merely reflect a numerical accounting, or does it mean that the black hole's surface is where the information is actually stored?

The answer depends on whether you view the black hole from the outside or from the inside — and from the outside, there's good reason to believe that information is indeed stored at the event horizon.

These particles would in effect serve as recording devices that store information, providing clues about the original material that went into the black hole.

However, the new research suggests that the information encoded in particles falling in could remain stored at the black hole's point of no return, or event horizon, until that black hole evaporates.

Joseph Polchinski, Firewall Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara Year: 2012 Known for: Discovering D - branes, explaining what D - branes are (a string theory thing) Idea: Once a black hole has lost about half of itself to Hawking radiation, the event horizon can no longer store enough encoded information to tell the story of what's inside.

In particular, Hawking and Penrose disagree on what happens to the information stored in a black hole and on why the beginning of the universe differs from the end.

The artist invites us to contemplate the suggestion of planet earth as a black hole, where all planetary matter has been swallowed and stored as information on the event horizon.