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The prevalent opinion that infalling objects can freely cross a black hole horizon is based on the assumptions that the horizon region is governed by classical General Relativity and by specific singular coordinate transformations it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-19 Merab Gogberashvili

There are a number of important thought experiments that involve raising and lowering boxes full of radiation in the vicinity of black hole horizons. This paper looks at the limitations placed on these thought experiments by the null energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-27 Adam R. Brown

We provide further evidence that information is preserved during black hole evaporation and may be recoverable, provided quantum gravitational effects resolve the singularity. We demonstrate that due to quantum gravity effects, black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Meysam Motaharfar , Parampreet Singh

We show that small deviations from spherical symmetry, described by means of exact solutions to Einstein equations, provide a mechanism to "bleach" the information about the collapsing body as it falls through the aparent horizon, thereby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-20 L. Herrera

Information about the collapsed matter in a black hole will be lost if Hawking radiations are truly thermal. Recent studies discover that information can be transmitted from a black hole by Hawking radiations, due to their spectrum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-07 Baocheng Zhang , Qing-yu Cai , Ming-sheng Zhan , Li You

We consider black-hole evaporation from a hidden-variables perspective. It is suggested that Hawking information loss, associated with the transition from a pure to a mixed quantum state, is compensated for by the creation of deviations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Antony Valentini

The gravity-scalar field system in spherical symmetry provides a natural setting for exploring gravitational collapse and its aftermath in quantum gravity. In a canonical approach, we give constructions of the constraint and Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Daniel R. Terno

We present a microscopic statistical-mechanical foundation for interpreting the horizon area of a scrambling black hole as coherent information, equivalently negative conditional quantum entropy, in Hawking's pair-creation picture. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Koji Azuma

We investigate the scattering of electromagnetic and gravitational waves off a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole in the low-temperature regime where the near-horizon throat experiences large quantum fluctuations. We find that the black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 Roberto Emparan , Stefano Trezzi

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has significantly advanced our ability to study black holes, achieving unprecedented spatial resolution and revealing horizon-scale structures. Notably, these observations feature a distinctive dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Yifan Chen , Ran Ding , Yuxin Liu , Yosuke Mizuno , Jing Shu , Haiyue Yu , Yanjie Zeng

We propose here that the well-known black hole paradoxes such as the information loss and teleological nature of the event horizon are restricted to a particular idealized case, which is the homogeneous dust collapse model. In this case,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-25 Pankaj S. Joshi , Ramesh Narayan

In any spacetime, it is possible to have a family of observers following a congruence of timelike curves such that they do not have access to part of the spacetime. This lack of information suggests associating a (congruence dependent)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Padmanabhan

This is an ongoing review on the idea that the phase space information loss at causal horizons is the key ingredient of major physical laws. Assuming that information is fundamental and the information propagates with finite velocity, one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-31 Jae-Weon Lee

We review recent progress on the information paradox. We explain why exponentially small correlations in the radiation emitted by a black hole are sufficient to resolve the original paradox put forward by Hawking. We then describe a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-02 Suvrat Raju

The problem of information loss is considered under the assumption that the process of black hole evaporation terminates in the decay of the black hole interior into a baby universe. We show that such theories can be decomposed into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Joseph Polchinski , Andrew Strominger

Event horizons are (generically) not physically observable. In contrast, apparent horizons (and the closely related trapping horizons) are generically physically observable --- in the sense that they can be detected by observers working in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-10 Matt Visser

It is generally believed that, when matter collapses to form a black hole, the complete information about the initial state of the matter cannot be retrieved by future asymptotic observers, through local measurements. This is contrary to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Kinjalk Lochan , Sumanta Chakraborty , T. Padmanabhan

Violating Lorentz-invariance, and so implicitly permitting some form of superluminal communication, necessarily alters the notion of a black hole. Nevertheless, in both Einstein-{\AE}ther gravity, and Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity, there is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-31 Bethan Cropp , Stefano Liberati , Arif Mohd , Matt Visser

We discuss the limitations on space time measurement in the Schwarzchild metric. We find that near the horizon the limitations on space time measurement are of the order of the black hole radius. We suggest that it indicates that a large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 N. Itzhaki

The recent progress in string theory strongly suggests that formation and evaporation of black holes is a unitary process. This fact makes it imperative that we find a flaw in the semiclassical reasoning that implies a loss of information.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-28 Samir D. Mathur