Getting information from quantum black holes

Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, which makes them interesting for theorists trying to understand how the foundational theories of physics - quantum mechanics and general relativity - work together. I’ll describe recent progress on this problem, driven by looking at black holes through the lens of a quantum information theorist. This allowed us to calculate the information content of a black hole and its Hawking radiation, shedding new light on old paradoxes and on the quantum nature of spacetime.

Speaker: Henry Maxfield, Stanford University