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What did the physicist John Wheeler mean when he said, "a black hole has no hair"?

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The physicist John Wheeler understood that black holes absorb energy. Because black holes appear never to release the energy, this information is lost. Accordingly, Wheeler, saying "a black hole has no hair," explains that black holes appear to absorb information and never release it back into the universe.