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holds, in part, that the quantum information of the strings that fall onto a fuzzball is preserved as those strings dissolve into and contribute to the fuzzball's quantum makeup. The theory further holds that a fuzzball's quantum information is not only expressed at its surface but tunnels up through the tunneling fuzziness of the event horizon where it can be imprinted on Hawking radiation, which very slowly carries that information into regular spacetime in the form of delicate correlations in the outgoing quanta.
25: 1544: 2365: 942: 1472:. All bosons (e.g., photons) and the boson-like sfermions will readily overlap each other when crowded, whereas fermions and the fermion-like gauginos possessing mass (such as electrons, protons, and quarks) will not; this is one reason why superpartners—if they exist—have properties that are exceedingly different from their Standard Model counterparts. Take the example of the photon, which is a massless boson with an integer spin of 1 and is the carrier of 93: 3195: 1083:, or join. In doing so, all the quantum information of the in‑falling strings becomes part of larger, more complex strings. Due to fractional tension, string tension exponentially decreases as they become more complex with more vibration modes, relaxing to considerable lengths. The string theory formulas of Mathur and Lunin produce fuzzball surface radii that precisely equal Schwarzschild radii, which 1699:) by virtue of the nontrivial unique attributes of fuzzballs, which are extended objects with a physical structure. The team's simulations predicted slower-than-expected decay rates for certain vibration modes that would also be dominated by "echoes" from earlier ring oscillations. Moreover, a separate Italian team a year earlier posited that future gravitational-wave detectors, such as the proposed 1113:. This is an average, or mean, bulk density; as with neutron stars, the Sun, and its planets, a fuzzball's density varies from the surface where it is less dense, to its center where it is most dense. A bit of such a non-spinning fuzzball the size of a drop of water would, on average, have a mass of twenty million metric tons, which is equivalent to that of a granite ball 243 meters in diameter. 1358:—a quantum description of gravity—that is in harmony with general relativity. However, all five variations of superstring theory, including the Type IIB variant upon which fuzzball theory is based, have quantum gravity incorporated into them. Moreover, all five versions have been hypothesized as actually constituting five different limits, or subsets, that are unified under 3205: 1379:
while they are actively being searched for, have yet to be detected. Moreover, fuzzball theory cannot be substantiated by observing its predicted subtle effects on Hawking radiation because the radiation itself is for all practical purposes undetectable. However, fuzzball theory may be testable through
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that have been employed since 1986. This difficulty in detecting supersymmetric particles is not surprising to particle physicists since the lightest ones are believed to be stable, electrically neutral, and interact weakly with the particles of the Standard Model. Though many searches using particle
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published eight scientific papers between 2001 and 2012, assisted by postdoctoral researcher Oleg Lunin, who contributed to the first two papers. The papers propose that black holes are sphere-like extended objects with a definite volume and are composed of strings. This differs from the classic view
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that exists within the event horizon of a black hole. General relativity predicts that at the singularity, the curvature of spacetime becomes infinite, and it cannot determine the fate of matter and energy that falls into it. Physicists generally believe that the singularity is not a real phenomenon,
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In a purely theoretical sense, the fuzzball theory advanced by Mathur and Lunin goes beyond Hawking's formula relating the blackbody temperature of Hawking radiation and the mass of the black hole emitting it. Fuzzball theory satisfies the requirement that quantum information be conserved because it
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from spacetime. This paradox can be viewed as a contradiction between two very different theories: general relativity, which describes the largest gravity-based phenomena in the Universe, and quantum mechanics, which describes the smallest phenomena. Fuzzball theory purports to resolve this tension
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Shown over the Hawaiian island of Oahu is a cross-section of an unremarkable 6.8-solar-mass, 40-kilometer-diameter (25 miles) classic black hole (albeit non-spinning and perfectly spherical for simplicity). It comprises a singularity, an event horizon, and a void between them, which is cut off from
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just above a fuzzball's surface is subtly encoded with that information. As a practical matter, however, Hawking radiation is virtually impossible to detect because black holes emit it at astronomically low power levels and the individual photons constituting Hawking radiation have extraordinarily
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and one day be widely accepted as true—as are Einstein's theories of special and general relativity—theories regarding the natural world must make predictions that are consistently affirmed through observations of nature. Superstring theory predicts the existence of highly elusive particles that,
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a black hole; spacetime, photons, and all else not exquisitely close to the surface of a fuzzball are thought to be affected in precisely the same fashion as with the classical model of black holes featuring a singularity at its center. The two theories diverge only at the quantum level; that is,
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of stellar-mass black holes, gravitational-wave signals have so far matched the predictions of general relativity for classical black holes with singularities at their centers. However, an Italian team of scientists that ran computer simulations suggested in 2021 that existing gravitational-wave
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Hawking showed that the energy of photons released by Hawking radiation is inversely proportional to the mass of a black hole and, consequently, the smallest black holes emit the most energetic photons that are the least difficult to detect. However, the radiation emitted by even a minimum-size,
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Yet, general relativity's implications for classic black holes are inescapable: Other than the fact that the two black holes would become increasingly massive due to the infalling matter and light, no difference in their quantum compositions would exist because if singularities have zero volume,
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A black hole that fed primarily on the stellar atmosphere (protons, neutrons, and electrons) of a nearby companion star should, if it obeyed the known laws of quantum mechanics, grow to have a quantum composition different from another black hole that fed only on light (photons) from neighboring
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can no longer resist the force of gravity and it will rapidly collapse until some new physical process takes over. In classical general relativity, the collapsing neutron star reaches a critical density and forms an event horizon; to the outside universe it becomes a black hole, and the collapse
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black hole is emitting at most only ten photons per second.< Even if such a black hole was only 100 lightyears away, the odds of just one of its Hawking radiation photons landing anywhere on Earth—let alone being captured by an antenna—while a human is watching are astronomically improbable.
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little energy. This underlies why theoretically perfectly quiescent black holes (ones in a universe containing no matter or other types of electromagnetic radiation to absorb) evaporate so slowly as they lose energy (and equivalent amounts of mass) via Hawking radiation; even a modest 4.9 
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of black holes in which there is a singularity at their centers, which are thought to be a zero-dimensional, zero-volume point in which the entire mass of a black hole is concentrated at infinite density, surrounded many kilometers away by an event horizon below which light cannot escape.
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Though such densities are almost unimaginably extreme, they are, mathematically speaking, infinitely far from infinite density. Although the densities of typical stellar-mass fuzzballs are extreme—about the same as neutron stars—their densities are many orders of magnitude less than the
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quantum composition. Moreover, even if quantum information was not extinguished at singularities, it could not climb against infinite gravitational intensity and reach up to and beyond the event horizon where it could reveal itself in normal spacetime. This is called the
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Critically though, when signals are this weak, the challenge is no longer one of classic radio astronomy technological issues like gain and signal-to-noise ratio; Hawking radiation comprises individual photon quanta, so such a weak signal means a
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which is an unremarkable supermassive black hole, emits Hawking radiation at a near-nonexistent radiant power of at most 13 photons per century and does so with a wavelength so great that a receiving antenna possessing even a modest degree of
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If the collapsing body was rotating or electrically charged, the resulting black hole would settle down to a stationary state which was described, not by the Schwarzchild solution, but by a charged Kerr solution characterised by the mass
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for a non-rotating black hole), fuzzballs have a variable density that decreases as the inverse square of their mass (twice the mass is twice the diameter, which is eight times the volume, resulting in one-quarter the density). A typical
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As no direct experimental evidence supports either string theory in general or fuzzballs in particular, both are products purely of calculations and theoretical research. However, the existence of fuzzballs may be testable through
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Fuzzball theory resolves a long-standing conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics by holding that quantum information is preserved in fuzzballs and that Hawking radiation originating within the Planck-scale
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Importantly, the above values are for the smallest possible stellar-mass black holes; far more difficult yet to detect is the Hawking radiation emitted by supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies. For instance,
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Fuzzball theory's proposed solution to the black hole information paradox resolves a significant incompatibility between quantum mechanics and general relativity. At present, there is no widely accepted theory of
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are actually less dense than neutron stars possessing the minimum possible density. Due to the mass-density inverse-square rule, fuzzballs need not even have unimaginable densities.
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However there is a classical phenomenon called superradiance in which waves incident in certain modes on a rotating or charged black hole are scattered with increased amplitude .
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The experimental detection of superpartners would not only bolster superstring theory but would also help fill gaps in current particle physics, such as the likely composition of
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As no direct experimental evidence supports either string theory or fuzzball theory, both are products purely of calculations and theoretical research. However, theories must be
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spacetime. The fuzzball hypothesis posits that black holes are balls of the ultimate form of degenerate matter with a physical surface located precisely at the event horizon.
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Since the mean densities of fuzzballs (and the effective densities of classic black holes) decrease as the inverse square of their mass, fuzzballs greater than 7 
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With classical-model black holes, objects passing through the event horizon on their way to the singularity are thought to enter a realm of curved spacetime where the
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observatories are capable of discerning fuzzball-theory-supporting evidence in the signals from merging binary black holes (and the resultant effects on
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supersymmetry in the opposite direction, superstring theory predicts that fermions from the Standard Model have boson-like superpartners known as
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The fuzzball hypothesis dispenses with the singularity at the heart of a black hole by positing that the entire region within the black hole's
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In §3, 'Angular Momentum and Charge,' which is 2œ pages starting on page 213, Hawking began the formula-rich section with the following:
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The primary paper was a 2002 publication (#3, below) titled "A proposal to resolve the black hole information paradox". The list:
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is actually an extended object: a ball of strings, which are advanced as the ultimate building blocks of matter and light. Under
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such as neutron stars and black holes. Ever since the first direct detection of gravitational waves, a 2015 event known as
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of the Solar System's heliosphere—and a mean density equal to that of the Earth's atmosphere at sea level (1.2 kg/m).
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However, fuzzball theory may be testable through gravitational-wave astronomy. Gravitational wave observatories like the
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Black holes (or fuzzballs) are produced in various ways, most of which are exceedingly violent mass-shedding events like
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of a drop of water (about one-quarter the volume of a typical grain of table salt) is to all the Earth's oceans.
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black hole (or fuzzball) comprises extremely low-energy photons that are equivalent to those emitted by a
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neutron star (one slowly siphoning off mass from a companion star) that exceeds a critical mass limit,
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Unlike the view of a black hole as a singularity, a small fuzzball can be thought of as an extra-dense
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supermassive black hole would require ten million-trillion-trillion times longer still to evaporate:
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in 1954, and in 1973 was experimentally observed in hydrogen fluoride atoms by N. Skribanowitz
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if there is to be a possibility of ascertaining their validity. To be in full accordance with the
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because the Type IIB superstring theory it is based on is a quantum description of gravity called
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billion-billionths of one milliwatt). Such an infinitesimal transmitted power is to one watt as
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classic black holes and fuzzballs differ only in their internal composition and how they affect
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colliders have ruled out certain mass ranges for supersymmetric particles, the hunt continues.
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The first challenge insofar as the testability of fuzzball theory is it is rooted in unproven
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Since the volume of fuzzballs is a function of the Schwarzschild radius (2953 meters per
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spacetime dimensions wherein five of the six extra spatial dimensions are "compactified".
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comprising them. Accordingly, fuzzballs are theorized to be the terminal phase of
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calculated using an entirely different mathematical technique 87 years earlier.
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inversely proportional to the mass of a black hole. This radiation, now called
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times the current age of the Universe to vanish. Moreover, a top-of-the-list
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All variations of string theory hold that the fundamental constituents of
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proceeds towards a gravitational singularity. In the fuzzball model, the
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in the Standard Model; it is predicted to have a superpartner called a
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Video lecture series at CERN (four parts approximately an hour each):
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Black hole 'superradiance' phenomenon may aid quest for dark matter"
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Classical black holes create a problem for physics known as the
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showed that quantum effects will make black holes appear to be
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Information paradox solved? If so, Black Holes are "Fuzzballs"
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Information Paradox Solved? If So, Black Holes Are "Fuzzballs"
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in its core (neutrons and perhaps a smattering of protons and
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Astronomers take virtual plunge into black hole (84 MB)
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Fuzzballs become less dense as their mass increases due to
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This is a false-color view of the supermassive black hole
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from the Standard Model, sfermions don't strongly act as
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Neutron stars have a maximum possible mass, known as the
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predicts that for each known quanta (particle) in the
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Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
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String theory

String
Cosmic string
Brane
D-brane
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Superstring
Type I
Type II
Heterotic
S-duality
T-duality
U-duality
M-theory
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Mirror symmetry
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