Black hole might take you to another universe: Hawking
August 28, 2015 01:43
Celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking may have solved the 40-year-old information paradox - which continues to puzzle scientists - saying one could simply pop up in another universe after being sucked into a black hole, in a new theory about where lost information ends up.
"If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out," Hawking, director of research at Cambridge University's department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics, said in a public lecture in Stockholm, Sweden.
He said he had discovered a mechanism "by which information is returned out of the black hole", a place where gravity compresses matter to a point where the usual laws of physics break down.
He was speaking at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics is hosting the Hawking Radiation Conference dedicated to examining the mystery of the "information paradox" a conundrum concerning what happens to things swallowed by black holes.
Information about the physical state of something disappearing into a black hole appears to be completely lost, but according to the way the universe works, this should be impossible. Even information falling into a black hole ought to end up somewhere, The Guardian reported.
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