Solving the mystery of evaporating black holes: What happens to its stuff when it vanishes?

For all their extraordinary power, black holes are not immortal.

They have a life cycle just like we do. Forty years ago Stephen Hawking, the world’s foremost expert on black holes, announced that they evaporate and shrink because they emit radiation.

But if a black hole evaporates and shrinks, what happens to everything it devoured during its lifetime?

Most mathematical calculations have suggested that the information and everything else inside the black hole simply vanishes, a conclusion that raised more questions than it has answered…

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Solving the mystery of evaporating black holes: What happens to its stuff when it vanishes?