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Chromatic_Jon  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stephen Hawking believes he’s solved a huge mystery about black holes

I'm not sure I can be the one to explain it to you, but if you've got 90 minutes and a good pair of headphones (the volumes a bit low) here's a video of Leonard Susskind explaining very accessibly the gist of black holes and the information paradox;

The lecture is from 2008 though so it isn't technically cutting edge, but I think you'd still find it pretty satisfying even with as much as an undergrad education in physics.