Most of the scientists and other experts believed that nothing, not even light, can escape from the black hole because of the intense gravitational pull. This line of thought was fully accepted as truth by most individuals as it is being thought inside some educational institutions and even published in different literatures. However, just recently, another authority figure in the said field, Stephen Hawking, put into question such prevailing assumption about black holes.
The known theoretical physicist, during his lecture (video link) at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, discussed the idea that being in a black hole may not represent permanent disappearance in contrast to what was previously assumed. The talk of Hawking shed some light on one of the most difficult questions in science which is, "what happens to the information about the physical state of things that are swallowed up by black holes. And is it retrievable?" In response to such enigmatic query, Hawking said via iflscience that;
"I propose that the information is not stored in the interior of the black hole as one might expect, but on its boundary, the event horizon." In the latter part, he then added that, "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. But you couldn't come back to our universe," he said. "So although I'm keen on space flight, I'm not going to try that."
For an average individual this theory might be considered as truth already, but for critical thinkers, given of its standing nature as a theory, it is yet to be considered as something true or false. Further studies are to be made and many things are to be examined to fully conclude the validity or falsity of Hawking's theory. And it would be no wonder if years from now even Hawking himself would make some revisions on this line of thought, as he previously did with his previous works.
