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Can information get back out of black holes?

Nature News: If you were sucked into a black hole, you wouldn't stand a chance. But new calculations suggest that some things might survive travelling to the heart of the Universe's darkest objects.

'Quantum information' could make it through a black hole, says a group of theorists at Pennsylvania State University. If their calculation holds water, it would solve an important problem for quantum mechanics — and make the behaviour of black holes easier to predict.

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