New theory: black holes aren't just hoarding chaos; they're actually the things creating it for the rest of the universe.
March 20, 2026
Original Paper
Black Hole--Entropy Container or Creator
arXiv · 2603.18374
The Takeaway
For decades, the central dogma of black hole physics has been that they are the ultimate storage units for information (entropy). This paper challenges that paradigm, arguing that black holes are more like amplifiers: they have zero internal entropy but generate and emit it as they evaporate away.
From the abstract
Do black holes possess entropy or do they create it? The dominant assumption is that they possess entropy, and a they evaporate that entropy is emitted and decreases. In this paper I use a model of a linear amplifier, in which I argue that the amplifier has not entropy and yet it emits entropy in the process of it operation. This model is closely related to behaviour of black holes, resulting in answer the question of that title that black holes do not have entropy, but nevertheless them create