What happens to information that falls into a black hole, according to quantum mechanics?
Category: Science · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think about the debates surrounding black hole information loss.
Answer
It may be stored at the event horizon
Explanation
The information paradox suggests that while information seems lost, it may be encoded on the event horizon, preserving it in some form.
This is a expert science riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is It may be stored at the event horizon.
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