Yun, Zinkoo2012-02-062012-02-0620112012-02-06http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3837In recent work by Kraus and Wilczek, it is first uncovered that small deviations from exact thermality in Hawking radiation have the capacity to carry off the maximum information content of a black hole. It is summarized, simplified and extended in this dissertation. This goes a considerable way toward resolving a long-standing “information loss paradox.”enthermalityHawking radiationblack holeThesisAvailable to the World Wide Web