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The black hole information paradox has caused enormous confusion over four decades. But in recent years, the theorem of quantum strong-subaddditivity has sorted out the possible resolutions into three sharp categories: (A) No new physics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Samir D. Mathur

The information loss paradox is often discussed from the perspective of the observers who stay outside of a black hole. However, the interior spacetime of a black hole can be rather nontrivial. We discuss the open problems regarding the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Yen Chin Ong

The black hole information paradox is one of the most important issues in theoretical physics. We review some recent progress using string theory in understanding the nature of black hole microstates. For all cases where these microstates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-10-27 Samir D. Mathur

I propose that the information loss paradox can be resolved by considering the supertranslation of the horizon caused by the ingoing particles. Information can be recovered in principle, but it is lost for all practical purposes.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-04 S. W. Hawking

Magnetically charged dilatonic black holes have a perturbatively infinite ground state degeneracy associated with an infinite volume throat region of the geometry. A simple argument based on causality is given that these states do not have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 T. Banks , M. O'Loughlin , A. Strominger

In this paper, we study the influence of the electric charge of Reissner-Nordstrom black hole on the dynamics of fine-grained entropy of Hawking radiation, collected in finite entangling regions. We demonstrate that for certain sizes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Aleksandr I. Belokon

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 entropy and information puzzles arising from black holes cannot be resolved if quantum gravity effects remain confined to a microscopic scale. We use concrete computations in nonperturbative string theory to argue for three kinds of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Samir D. Mathur

The information paradox in the quantum evolution of black holes is studied within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The unitarity of the CFT strongly suggests that all information about an initial state that forms a black hole is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 D. A. Lowe , L. Thorlacius

In this invited review, we describe Hawking's information paradox and a recently proposed resolution of it. Explicit calculations demonstrate the existence of quantum hair on black holes, meaning that the quantum state of the external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Xavier Calmet , Stephen D. H. Hsu

The black hole information loss paradox has long been one of the most studied and fascinating aspects of black hole physics. In its latest incarnation, it takes the form of the firewall paradox. In this paper, we first give a conceptually…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Enrico Cinti , Marco Sanchioni

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

The black hole information paradox tells us something important about the way quantum mechanics and gravity fit together. In these lectures I try to give a pedagogical review of the essential physics leading to the paradox, using mostly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-28 Samir D. Mathur

This paper explores the enduring black hole information and firewall paradoxes, challenges that have prompted many proposals, conjectures, and theories. Noteworthy among these are the ER = EPR conjecture and AdS/CFT correspondence, which…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Galina Weinstein

The black-hole information paradox has fueled a fascinating effort to reconcile the predictions of general relativity and those of quantum mechanics. Gravitational considerations teach us that black holes must trap everything that falls…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Samuel L. Braunstein , Arun K. Pati

The black hole information paradox is resolved in string theory by a radical change in the picture of the hole: black hole microstates are horizon sized quantum gravity objects called `fuzzballs' instead of vacuum regions with a central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-01 Samir D. Mathur

The information paradox suggests that the black hole loses information when it emits radiation. In this way, the spectrum of radiation corresponds to a mixed (non-pure) quantum state even if the internal state generating the black-hole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Ivan Arraut

Suppose a black hole forms from a pure quantum state $\ket{\psi}$. The black hole information loss paradox arises from semiclassical arguments suggesting that, even in a closed system, the process of black hole formation and evaporation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Kiran Adhikari

The black hole information paradox is the incompatibility of quantum mechanics with the semi-classical picture of Hawking radiation. Hawking radiation appears thermal and eventually leads to the complete disappearance of a black hole.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-13 Malcolm J. Perry

We provide some thoughts on the black hole information loss paradox, highlighting some important aspects of the problem that need to be addressed in order to resolve the paradox.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-23 Yen Chin Ong , Dong-han Yeom