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Black holes sparked the public imagination for almost 100 years. Their presence in the universe has been long debated; however, the detection of X-ray radiation coming from the center of the galaxies, a feature of black holes, has put an end to the discussion and undoubtedly proven their existence.The vast majority, if not all, of the known black holes were unveiled by detecting the X-ray radiation emitted by the stellar material accreting around them. Accretion disks emit X-ray radiation, light with high energy, due to the extreme gravity in the vicinity of black holes. X-ray photons emitted near rotating black holes not only exposed the existence of these phantom-like astrophysical bodies, but also seem to carry hidden quantum messages.A recent paper, posted on the arXiv pre-print server, (Photonic Bell states creation around rotating black holes - http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06822) argues that X-ray radiation coming from fast spinning black holes encompasses quantum information. The quantum information is encoded in the two degrees of freedom X-ray photons acquire during their journey throughout the warped and twisted space-time near the rotating black hole. The two degrees of freedom consist in polarization and orbital angular momentum of X-ray radiation and traditionally represent two qubits in quantum ...