We used to think that if something entered a black hole, it was never coming back. Stephen Hawking has proposed that this is not true after all.
Hawking gave a public lecture in Stockholm yesterday, and according to New Scientist, he said "if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up... there's a way out."
"I propose that the information is stored not in the interior of the black hole as one might expect, but on its boundary, the event horizon," Hawking said. The event horizon is a sphere around a black hole, beyond which the gravitational force becomes so high it is impossible to escape.
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Hawking gave a public lecture in Stockholm yesterday, and according to New Scientist, he said "if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up... there's a way out."
"I propose that the information is stored not in the interior of the black hole as one might expect, but on its boundary, the event horizon," Hawking said. The event horizon is a sphere around a black hole, beyond which the gravitational force becomes so high it is impossible to escape.
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