In 1997, the three cosmologists made a famous bet as to whether information that enters a black hole ceases to exist -- that is, whether the interior of a black hole is changed at all by the ...

Artist view of a black hole ringing down into a stable state. Credit: Yasmine Steele at University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign Artist view of a black hole ringing down into a stable state. Credit: ...

Tulika Bose: This is 60-Second Science. I'm Tulika Bose. You probably already know what a black hole is, but have you ever heard of the black hole information paradox? I'm here with Clara Moskowitz, ...

Are black holes as simple as they appear, or is there more to their story? Theories that attempt to resolve the so-called black hole information paradox predict that black holes are much more ...

Black holes have been a big problem in physics. For decades, scientists have been mystified about what happens to stuff that falls into a black hole. The quandary is called the black hole information ...

Black holes have an information problem. According to the laws of quantum mechanics, information about the state of a closed system cannot be destroyed, but black holes seem to obliterate it.