Submitted by stealth941 t3_10f735i in askscience
kilo-kos t1_j56towp wrote
Reply to comment by beipphine in Whats stopping us from sending a probe into a black hole if we haven't already? by stealth941
Hawking Radiation is theoretically not at all related to the contents of the black hole; it should be random.
However... that means that when a black hole evaporates completely, all information that entered it is destroyed. This is a huge open problem in quantum physics known as the Black Hole Information Paradox.
Interestingly, one recently discovered possible solution is that information is able to exit the black hole via wormholes that could mathematically exist, but don't... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epSev7ovVew
But really, we just don't know yet for sure. It's certainly possible that Hawking's original description of Hawking Radiation is incomplete or subtly wrong.
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