25 August 2015 18 3K Report

"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,"

At Monday's public lecture, he explained this jumbled return of information was like burning an encyclopedia: You wouldn't technically lose any information if you kept all of the ashes in one place, but you'd have a hard time looking up the capital of Minnesota.

The translations that occur form a sort of hologram of the original particles, Hawking said -- a hologram in the sense that 3-D information is recorded on a 2-D surface. When radiation leaves the black hole, it carries some of that information preserved on the event horizon with it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/25/stephen-hawking-believes-hes-solved-a-huge-mystery-about-black-holes/

http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01147

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