Discuss the implications of quantum entanglement for the information paradox in black hole physics and the recent developments in this field.

Quantum entanglement plays a pivotal role in addressing the black hole information paradox, which questions whether information that falls into a black hole is lost forever. Recent developments, such as the concept of entanglement entropy and the holographic principle, suggest that information is encoded in the correlations between the inside and outside of the black hole. The proposal of the “firewall” hypothesis and the ER=EPR conjecture, which posits a connection between entanglement (EPR pairs) and wormholes (Einstein-Rosen bridges), are key in exploring how entanglement could resolve the paradox by suggesting mechanisms for information retrieval from black holes.