Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2000-12-20
Phys.Lett. A299 (2002) 144-148
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
12 pages
Scientific paper
Hawking's black hole information puzzle highlights the incompatibility between our present understanding of gravity and quantum physics. However, Hawking's prediction of black-hole evaporation is at a semiclassical level. One therefore suspects some modifications of the character of the radiation when quantum properties of the {\it black hole itself} are properly taken into account. In fact, during the last three decades evidence has been mounting that, in a quantum theory of gravity black holes may have a discrete mass spectrum, with concomitant {\it discrete} line emission. A direct consequence of this intriguing prediction is that, compared with blackbody radiation, black-hole radiance is {\it less} entropic, and may therefore carry a significant amount of {\it information}. Using standard ideas from quantum information theory, we calculate the rate at which information can be recovered from the black-hole spectral lines. We conclude that the information that was suspected to be lost may gradually leak back, encoded into the black-hole spectral lines.
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