Well, basically Hawking said that there's no event Horizon. Information can and does escape - nothing is lost. Traditional Black Holes don't exist. They were some mathematical fun for a few decades but reality doesn't match up to the math. [1]http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5761 Hawking has yet to pass Peer Review - it's just on ARXIV which you or I could post to tongue emoticon Means there's been far more science fiction (based on math) about them than science fact. Science fact is getting better at it. References Visible links 1. https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1401.5761&h=MAQFdnXd9