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Vacuum’s Memory: How Information Survives in a Black Hole ⚡ экспресс

Original: "The magic of the gravitational vacuum"
· Samir D. Mathur
arXiv:2606.20334 · 2026-06-18 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · HEP Theory General Relativity
The vacuum is no emptiness—it’s a cunning web of threads that stops information from vanishing inside a black hole.
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The quantum foam of space doesn’t just hum—it weaves a safety net against black holes. When a hole tries to be born, the vacuum knits a tangle that preserves every scrap of information.

🎯 The recording density on a fuzzball is staggering: a knot the size of a football could store information about every human who ever lived, down to their last thought.

🎬 The idea of writing data onto a black hole’s surface echoes holographic storage from science fiction—for instance, in the ‘Star Trek’ series.

Scientists
Stephen HawkingJacob BekensteinAlbert EinsteinFritz ZwickyVera RubinBernhard Riemann
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black hole entropy spacetime curvature
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second law of thermodynamicsHawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equationsBoltzmann distribution
Original: arXiv:2606.20334 · CC BY · bridge42worlds