SMRTR Science & EngineeringSep 25, 2024Quanta Magazine

The #1 Clue to Quantum Gravity Sits on the Surfaces of Black Holes

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Black holes' entropy scales with their surface area, not volume, according to the Bekenstein-Hawking formula from the 1970s. This suggests all information inside a black hole is encoded on its surface, hinting at a holographic principle that may apply to space-time in general.

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