Black holes - throw something in them and that's the end of the story, right? Well, apparently some physicists just can't seem to leave it there. Credit: NASA.
An easy way to think about the entropy of black holes is to consider that entropy represents the loss of free energy – that is, energy that is available to do work – from a system. Needless to say, anything you throw into a black hole is no longer available to do any work in the wider universe.(...)
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