Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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What is a black hole firewall? How does it solve some paradoxes when it comes to black holes? Do the firewalls actually exist? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE!

00:00 Event Horizons
04:25 Hawking Radiation and the Information Paradox
09:41 Black Hole Complementarity
14:21 Entanglement and the Revenge of the Paradox
16:59 The Firewall

Video credits: NASA, Andrew Hamilton