Humans could escape from black holes – rather than getting stuck in them – according to a new theory proposed by Stephen Hawking.
Black holes in fact aren’t as ‘black’ as people thought and could be a way of getting through to an alternative universe.
‘The existence of alternative histories with black holes suggests this might be possible’ Hawking said – according to a report from Stockholm University. ‘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.
Hawking’s proposal is an attempt to answer a problem that has tormented physicists about what happens to things when they go beyond the event horizon – where even light can’t get back. The information about the object has to be preserved – scientists believe – even if the thing itself is swallowed up — and that paradox has puzzled scientists for decades.