2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/179378Near-extremal black holes are obtained by exciting the Ramond sector of the D1-D5 CFT, where the ground state is highly degenerate. We find that the dual geometries for these ground states have throats that end in a way that is characterized by the CFT state. Below the black hole threshold we find a detailed agreement between propagation in the throat and excitations of the CFT. We study the breakdown of the semiclassical approximation and relate the results to the proposal of gr-qc/0007011 for resolving the information paradox: semiclassical evolution breaks down if hypersurfaces stretch too much during an evolution. We find that a volume V stretches to a maximum throat depth of V/2G.57 pages, Latex, 9 figuresHigh Energy Physics - TheoryGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyAdS/CFT duality and the black hole information paradoxtext