Stephen Hawking: Black Holes Are Not Points of No-Return

Stephen Hawking believes black holes are not a point of no-return as they are thought to be.

Speaking at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Hawking said that black holes are not eternal prisons and it is possible to for things to get out of a black hole and even come out in another universe, according to NPR. This thinking defies conventional physics which holds that a black hole destroys anything that enters it and its gravity prevents escape, including that of light.

Black holes are fully understood and many theories abound as to what happens to something that enters it. The conventional notion that everything is destroyed is challenged by quantum mechanics which rules that information can never be lost. Thus there is a need for another explanation of black holes which scientists like Hawking are trying to provide.

According to BBC, Hawking also mentioned that information may not make it into the black hole at all. Instead it stays at the event horizon after being transformed into a 2-D hologram. Event horizon is the point of no-return from a black hole's gravitational pull.

"The information is not stored in the interior of the black hole as one might expect, but in its boundary - the event horizon," the noted physicists reportedly said.