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- New research suggests that information could escape from black holes after all. The research, which appears in the latest issue of Physical Review Letters, uses the basic tenets of quantum mechanics to give a new description of information leaking from a black hole.
Our results didn’t need the details of a black hole’s curved space-time geometry. That lends support to recent proposals that space, time and even gravity itself may be emergent properties within a deeper theory. Our work subtly changes those proposals, by identifying quantum information theory as the likely candidate for the source of an emergent theory of gravity. The results actually extend the predictions made by standard techniques that rely on a detailed knowledge of space time and black hole geometry.
We cannot claim to have proven that escape from a black hole is truly possible, but that is the most straight-forward interpretation of our results. Our results suggest that quantum
information theory will play a key role in a future theory combining quantum mechanics and gravity.
