Band-aid for information loss from black holes

TL;DR

This paper discusses how slight deviations from perfect thermality in Hawking radiation can potentially carry all the information from a black hole, addressing the long-standing information-loss paradox.

Contribution

It summarizes, simplifies, and extends recent findings that small deviations from thermality enable information transfer from black holes.

Findings

Deviations from thermality in Hawking radiation carry black hole information

This approach offers progress toward resolving the information-loss paradox

Extends previous work by Kraus and Wilczek

Abstract

We summarize, simplify and extend recent work showing that small deviations from exact thermality in Hawking radiation, first uncovered by Kraus and Wilczek, have the capacity to carry off the maximum information content of a black hole. This goes a considerable way toward resolving a long-standing "information-loss paradox".