Stephen Hawking may have cracked massive mystery of black holes

Stephen Hawking provided a ground-breaking solution to one of the most mysterious aspects of black holes, called the "information paradox." Black holes look like they 'absorb' matter. Every time a star falls into a black hole, it seems like the star is completely lost -- but according to the basic laws of physics, that's not possible. Matter and information can't really disappear. And black holes are no exception.

Hawking explains, "I propose that the information is stored not in the interior of the black hole, as one might expect, but on its boundary, the event horizon."

In simpler terms, this means you would essentially be turned into a hologram.

So what happens if you fall in a black hole? "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," he says.

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