Black Holes are Not Point of NO RETURN, Researchers Prove

Contrary to existing notion, a new study claims it is possible for information to escape black holes.

Researchers at University of Buffalo have detailed a paper showing information that enters black holes is not lost and is possible for an outsider to learn information existing within the black hole. Researchers claimed mathematically that interaction between particles emitted by the black hole can reveal information within it.

"According to our work, information isn't lost once it enters a black hole. It doesn't just disappear," said Dejan Stojkovic, associate professor of physics at the University at Buffalo.

Black holes have been thought of as point of no return in space until 40 years ago since Stephen Hawking proposed that black holes could radiate energy eventually disappear. Hawking's information paradox holds that information in a black hole could be lost forever, which quantum physics did not agree with. However Hawking did admit he may have been wrong but no further work was done to ascertain the alternative.

In their paper, researchers claimed that interaction between particles including gravitational attraction can reveal information about the object that formed the black hole and properties of matter sucked inside.

"These correlations were often ignored in related calculations since they were thought to be small and not capable of making a significant difference. Our explicit calculations show that though the correlations start off very small, they grow in time and become large enough to change the outcome," Stojkovic said.