Black Holes
See also: Bekenstein boundStephen Hawking often speaks of the thermodynamic entropy of black holes in terms of their information content. Do black holes destroy information? It appears that there are deep relations between the entropy of a black hole and information loss See Black hole thermodynamics and Black hole information paradox.
Read more about this topic: Entropy In Thermodynamics And Information Theory
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