Band-aid for information loss from black holes

Werner Israel, Zinkoo Yun

Published 2010-09-04, updated 2010-12-20Version 2

We summarize, simplify and extend recent work showing that small deviations from exact thermality in Hawking radiation, first uncovered by Kraus and Wilczek, have the capacity to carry off the maximum information content of a black hole. This goes a considerable way toward resolving a long-standing "information-loss paradox".