The renowned physicist has made a new claim that information falling into a black hole isn't consumed - answering a fundamental paradox of modern physics.
Stephen Hawking has put forward a new theory that suggests all is not lost if you find yourself sucked into a black hole in the depths of space.
While physicists have long assumed that the gravitational force of a black hole - strong enough to devour light itself - meant certain doom, Hawking isn't so sure.
“If you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up, there’s a way out,” the famous professor told an audience at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
He explained that information pulled into the black hole isn't consumed by the collapsed star, but instead never makes it in. Instead, it is either translated into a "hologram" on the edge of the black hole or pushed out into another dimension completely.
“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,” said Professor Hawking
“The message of this lecture is that black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought."
"Things can get out of a black hole both on the outside and possibly come out in another universe.”
The mystery of what happens inside a black hole is known as the "information paradox" and occurs when quantum mechanics combines with general relativity.
While quantum mechanics says that information lost in a black hole disappears completely, general relativity states that, in principle, this is impossible.
Hawking's theory creates a possible answer to this paradox and perhaps a framework for Hollywood scriptwriters to begin work on Interstellar 2.
Source: MirrorOnline
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