Ashtekar12-2018 (IMAGE)

Penn State

Ashtekar12-2018

Caption

Artist representation of a black hole. The bottom half of the image depicts the black hole which, according to general relativity, traps everything including light. Effects based on loop quantum gravity, a theory that extends Einstein's general relativity using quantum mechanics, overcome this tremendous pull and liberate everything (top half of image), thus providing a concrete avenue for recovery of information previously thought to be lost in the black hole singularity.

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A. Corichi and J. P. Ruiz

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