#  Stephen Hawking's New Black-Hole Paper, Translated: An Interview with Co-Author Andrew Strominger 

 





January 13, 2016

 

 

This week Hawking, the University of Cambridge physicist [Malcolm J. Perry](http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/m.j.perry/), and the Harvard University physicist [Andrew Strominger](https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/strominger) posted a paper online in which the authors claim to make real progress toward solving the black-hole information paradox. Despite the inviting title—[“Soft Hair on Black Holes”](http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00921)—the paper is mercilessly technical, so I asked Strominger to walk me through it. An edited transcript of our conversation follows.

Read the full interview [here.](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/dark-star-diaries/stephen-hawking-s-new-black-hole-paper-translated-an-interview-with-co-author-andrew-strominger/)



 

 

 



 

 

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