Black holes confound science because they challenge the best known laws of physics — or do they? Professor Stephen Hawking has been saying for nearly 30 years that what goes into black holes never comes out. However, he lost a long-standing bet when he admitted yesterday that even black holes can’t make matter or information disappear.
Guests:
Andrew Strominger, Professor of Physics at Harvard University:Lynn Cominsky, head of the education and public outreach program for NASA’s Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope Mission and Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Sonoma State University