This artist’s impression shows the surroundings of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the active galaxy NGC 3783 in the southern constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). (Photo : ESO/M. Kornmesser)
Famous physicist Stephen Hawking reveals that not everything is lost when you fall into a black hole, he simply believes that anyone can just enter into another new universe upon doing so.
The scientist who is also the director of research in Cambridge University's department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics reveals his new theory about where lost information ends up after being reeled into the colossal gravitational forces of a black hole. A black hole is a place in deep space where its gravity can compress matter where light cannot even escape as the laws of physics are defied.
During a public lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, Hawking says that if you are feeling that you are inside a black hole, don't give up, there is a way out. He believes that he discovered a mechanism or process in which this information is returned, escaping from the black hole.
This is revealed at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology that is currently hosting the Hawking Radiation Conference, focusing on the "information paradox" which is a conundrum based on what events will follow after being swallowed into a black hole.
Data derived from a physical state of an object or any form of matter is believed to disappear and become lost forever inside a black hole, however, Hawking says that since this depends on how the universe works, this now becomes highly impossible.
Information that falls into a black hole is bound to end up somewhere, he says. Hawking says that this "lost" information will be found again via two processes. The first can either be translated or transformed into a "hologram" found at the edge of the black hole or it can break apart into an alternate universe.
According to the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, there are existing alternative histories when it comes to black holes and this escape might just be possible. The hole is needed to be large enough and if this is working with a rotating movement, this can create a new passage for another universe. However, it is impossible to come back to your own universe and spaceflight is just out of the question, Hawking adds.
Hawking explains further that the main message of this lecture is that black holes are not really as black as they are painted. They are not eternal prisons where science once thought it was and more importantly, things can get out of the black hole from the outside where it's possible to come out in another universe.
