Stephen Hawking Black Holes Are Not Eternal Prisons We Once Thought

"Stephen Hawking, who once stunned the scientific community by saying that black holes emit radiation, expounded on another groundbreaking theory on Tuesday."

"'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,' Hawking told a meeting of experts, according to the New Scientist. 'Things can get out of a black hole both on the outside and possibly come out in another universe.'"

"This, of course, is not what you learned in physics class. What you learned is that once anything made it past a black hole's event horizon, the black hole's super strong gravitational force would suck it in forever. Any information particle sucked in by the hole would also disappear for good."