Sentences with phrase «information about the black hole»

Strominger says the challenge is proving that supertranslations have the enormous storage capacity required to preserve all, not just some, of the information about a black hole's contents.

Their approach uses simulations to extract information about the black holes» properties directly from the gravitational wave data.

«Thus far we haven't gotten a lot of information about black holes.»

«It's like there exists a decoder ring that takes information about a black hole and maps it onto information about fluid mechanics,» Chesler says.

Not exact matches

Information about everything inside the black hole, including dead astronauts, would presumably disappear, too, a startling conclusion that flouts the rules of quantum mechanics.

The idea of matter escaping the alleged point - of - no - return was surprising (it's a central plot point in that other recent movie about black holes, the biographical The Theory of Everything), but the fate of information that falls into the black hole was what really troubled Hawking's colleagues.

In 2016, Hawking and colleagues proposed a path toward a solution: Black holes might have «soft hair,» low - energy particles that would retain information about what fell inside (SN: 2/06/16, p. 16).

This is intriguing, but, as long as the black hole continues to exist, we do not need to worry about what might have happened to the information, or entropy, associated with the original star.

When a black hole gobbles up particles, information about the particles» properties is seemingly trapped inside.

One possible solution, proposed in 2007 by physicists Patrick Hayden of Stanford University and John Preskill of Caltech, is that the black hole could act like a mirror, with information about infalling particles being reflected outward, imprinted in the Hawking radiation.

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Stephen Hawking has finally provided more information about how black holes might preserve information.

Hawking showed in the 1970s that every black hole will eventually evaporate and disappear, potentially destroying all the information the object once contained about how it formed and evolved over time.

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

Stanford is now relying on SYK to learn more about a black hole's interior, while Kitaev is pursuing the question of what happens to the information carried by objects that fall into a black hole.

Carroll agrees, but hopes their work «starts us thinking in slightly different ways about what it would mean to get qubits out [of a black hole]», and thus solve the puzzle about what happens to the information that falls into a black hole.

This gave the astronomers unique information about the high - energy emission that reveals how material is processed in the immediate vicinity of the central black hole.

Penrose developed the idea of cosmic censorship, which holds that information about processes happening within black holes remains forever hidden from outside observers.

According to relativity theory, information about what falls into a black hole is forever lost.

The signal provided LIGO scientists with information about the masses of the individual black holes, which were 29 and 36 times the sun's mass, plus or minus about four solar masses.

Originally, he argued that this «Hawking radiation» is so random that it could carry no information out about what had fallen into the black hole.

This allows information to escape from a black hole without any ambiguity about how to interpret it.

Chatwin - Davies and colleagues realized that they could teleport the information about the state of an electron out of a black hole, too.

«So, this protocol, though interesting in its own right, will probably not teach us much about the black hole information problem in general.»

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.

Either Hawking was wrong about black holes» destroying all traces of their past, or something was wrong with quantum mechanics, whose equations require that information never be lost.

Hawking had made new calculations showing that black hole radiation could contain subtly encoded information about the past.

Picking out twisted photons from a black hole would provide new information about the objects themselves and provide important tests of general relativity, says Martin Bojowald, a theoretical physicist at Pennsylvania State University who wrote a commentary on Thidé and his colleagues» work for Nature Physics.

If I read Amanda Gefter's fascinating article right, for observers outside a black hole all information about stuff that has...

Although the flare provided crucial information about the Milky Way's black hole, scientists are still unsure what caused it.

But this conflicted with the laws of quantum physics, which state that information about what fell into the black hole can never be completely wiped out.

«If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our Universe, but in a mangled form, which contains information about what you were like, but in an unrecognisable state.»

Black holes do not obliterate information about things which fall into them, but mangle information instead.

As far as everything else is concerned the black hole has «no hair» (no causal connection to information about its previous state).

Gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space and time produced by dramatic events in the universe, such as merging black holes, and predicted as a consequence of Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity — carry information about their origins and about the nature of gravity that can not otherwise be obtained.

«Not only will we learn about the formation of the black holes, but these new data from Hubble help us connect globular clusters to galaxies, providing information on one of the most important unsolved problems in astronomy today: how galaxy structure forms in the universe,» adds Michael Rich of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

The paper outlines how interactions between particles emitted by a black hole can reveal information about what lies within, such as characteristics of the object that formed the black hole to begin with, and characteristics of the matter and energy drawn inside.

A team of astronomers has revealed tantalizing new information about the explosions of massive stars, the workings of galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, and clusters of galaxies.

Hawking further concluded that the particles emitted by a black hole would provide no clues about what lay inside, meaning that any information held within a black hole would be completely lost once the entity evaporated.

Physicists believe that information about the contents of a black hole radiates out from its surface in the form of Hawking radiation.

Or it's a black hole which, unlike those in our universe, doesn't allow any information about it to escape.