The Last Black Holes Go

≈ 10¹⁰⁰ years · Far Future

Temperature (K): 1e-29
When: ≈ 10¹⁰⁰ years
Redshift: —
Era: Far Future
Seconds After Big Bang: 3.155693e+107

What Happened

The largest supermassive black holes finally evaporate. Whether the information that fell into them comes back out is still argued over, and is the sharpest clue anyone has about quantum gravity.

Researchers

Stephen Hawking Gerard 't Hooft Leonard Susskind Jacob Bekenstein

Equations

Schwarzschild Radius Boltzmann Entropy Shannon Entropy

Theories

Black Hole Thermodynamics Holographic Principle Quantum Gravity

Referenced by

equation

Boltzmann Entropy Schwarzschild Radius Shannon Entropy

researcher

Gerard 't Hooft Jacob Bekenstein Leonard Susskind Stephen Hawking

theory

Black Hole Thermodynamics Holographic Principle Quantum Gravity

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