Quanta Magazine | Kouzou Sakai Illustration

The illustration is for the article “Quantum Complexity Shows How to Escape Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox” on Quanta magazine. Inside of a black hole, the two theoretical pillars of 20th-century physics appear to clash. Now a group of young physicists think they have resolved the conflict by appealing to the central pillar of the new century — the physics of quantum information.