The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model provides a solvable theory of entangled many-particle quantum states without quasiparticle excitations. I will describe how its solution has led to an understanding of the universal structure of the low energy density of states of charged black holes, and to realistic and universal models of strange metals.

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