  Without imposing the trapping boundary conditions and only from within the
very definition of area it is shown that the loop quantization of area
manifests an unexpected degeneracy in area eigenvalues. This could lead to a
deeper understanding of the microscopic description of a quantum black hole. If
a certain number of semi-classically expected properties of black holes are
imposed on a quantum surface its entropy coincides with the Bekenstein-Hawking
entropy.
