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Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Volume 50, 2000

Review Article

The Quantum Physics of Black Holes: Results from String Theory

Sumit R. Das¹ and Samir D. Mathur²
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India; e-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210; e-mail: [email protected]
Vol. 50:153-206 (Volume publication date December 2000) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nucl.50.1.153
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We review recent progress in our understanding of the physics of black holes. In particular, we discuss the ideas from string theory that explain the entropy of black holes from a counting of microstates of the hole, and the related derivation of unitary Hawking radiation from such holes.

Keyword(s): black holes, D-branes, holography, information loss, string theory

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