Over the last decade the physics of black holes has been revolutionized by developments that grew out of Bekenstein's realization that black holes have entropy.... » 

Over the last decade the physics of black holes has been revolutionized by developments that grew out of Bekenstein's realization that black holes have entropy. Steven Hawking raised profound issues concerning the loss of information in black hole evaporation and the consistency of quantum mechanics in a world of gravity. For two decades these questions puzzled physicists and led to a revolution in the way we think about space. time matter and information. «