Stephen Hawking proposes new black hole theory

The theory could mean that humans might not necessarily disappear into a black hole if they fall into one

Physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking proposed in a statement, that humans could escape from black holes instead of getting stuck in them. 

Challenging earlier theories, Hawking said that "if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out."

Speaking at a conference in Stockholm, Hawking said that although travelers won’t be able to return to their own universe they may escape to another universe.

The black hole is identified as a hole in space with a gravitational pull so strong that even light cannot get out. However, Hawking suggests that there may be a way of getting into another universe.

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“The existence of alternative histories with black holes suggests this might be possible,” Hawking said, adding that “The hole would need to be large and if it was rotating it might have a passage to another universe. But you couldn’t come back to our universe. So although I’m keen on space flight, I’m not going to try that.”

Physicists have distressed themselves trying to figure out what happens to objects when they go beyond the event horizon where even light can’t get back.

Hawking’s theory is an attempt to answer that question. Paradoxically, scientists have believed that information about the object has to be stored despite the object being swallowed up.

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Hawking suggests that the information is stored on the event horizon, the boundary, implying that the information never makes it inside the black hole. "I propose that the information is stored not in the interior of the black hole as one might expect, but in its boundary, the event horizon," Hawking said.

This theory could also mean that humans might not necessarily disappear into a black hole if they fall into one, instead, they may remain on the edge in the form of a hologram or fall out somewhere else.

This article originally appeared on The Independent