Davide Laurenzano (University of Oxford)

The black hole information paradox is a fundamental challenge in modern theoretical physics. It arises from the apparent contradiction between the loss of information in black hole evaporation, as suggested by Hawking radiation, and the principle of unitarity, which is expected to hold in a quantum theory of gravity. In this talk, we examine this paradox in the context of the black 0-brane—a black hole solution in 10-dimensional spacetime with a well-defined dual quantum mechanical description. We demonstrate how the dual theory resolves both the singularity and radiation in terms of known degrees of freedom. This leads to the reconstruction of the Page curve for entanglement entropy, providing a resolution to the paradox in this specific setting.