One of the biggest revelations from the MIT physicist Netta Engelhardt’s work is that information that falls into a black hole isn’t necessarily lost forever. She is now tackling other questions about gravity, hoping to fill the last, largest gaps in physicists’ understanding of the universe at the most fundamental scales.
Black holes may not destroy all information about what they were originally made of, according to a new set of quantum calculations, which would solve a major physics paradox first described by Stephen Hawking
The renowned physicist had suggested that as black holes evaporate, they destroy information about what formed them – which contradicts a fundamental law of physics.