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Physicists Theorize Out How To Retrieve Information From a Black Hole (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Black holes earn their name because their gravity is so strong not even light can escape from them. Oddly, though, physicists have come up with a bit of theoretical sleight of hand to retrieve a speck of information that's been dropped into a black hole. The calculation touches on one of the biggest mysteries in physics: how all of the information trapped in a black hole leaks out as the black hole 'evaporates.' Many theorists think that must happen, but they don't know how.
It's more of a brown hole. Many people refer to it, as well as the politician/ceo/salesman, as an "ass" or "asshole".
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The connection between statistical mechanics and information theory was made by von Neumann right when talking with Shannon about his now famous work. If you want to complain the defition is bad, you can start by complaining about their work. Or you can be like Viol8 and equivocate in response to every article about physical theory (it has happened at least several times before) and pretend that refusing to learn about a topic is some form of insight.