[deleted] t1_j28zfyu wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:50 PM

Reply to comment by MoogProg in What is our current "best guess" about how to observers that entered a black hole on opposite sides would look to each other once they crossed the event horizon? by WittyUnwittingly

I'm not studied enough to say much about it, but I believe some recent studies strongly suggest information is preserved. However that doesn't make much of a difference to the spaghettified spacefarer.

spymaster1020 t1_j29part wrote on December 30, 2022 at 5:42 PM

I've heard of this theory before,something about the information being spread out on the event horizon. But what about when black holes decay through hawking radiation? Does that carry away the information?

lawblawg t1_j2angnj wrote on December 30, 2022 at 9:21 PM

Yes, that’s the best solution we have. The information is encoded in quantum fluctuations in the shape of the event horizon, and Hawkins radiation is both caused by those fluctuations and carries that information away with it.