Can someone help me understand Quantum Information?

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For example: wikipedia article on planck area says that when a black hole absorbs one bit of information, the surface area increases by one planck area. I cannot reconcile the fact that matter could be regarded as information and if yes, what kind of information? What is the substrate of this information? How does the universe keep track of this information and on what? For example matter has a gravitational signature. So is information just another form of entity with a gravitational presence?