As per Hawking, space travelers can escape from black holes, but would not be able to return to their own universe and will escape somewhere else.

Hawking, 73, explained that information that falls into a black hole is not consumed by the collapsed star, rather the information doesn’t even make it in.

Stephen Hawking, is considered as one of the greatest minds of the modern age and is admired by millions worldwide, presented the public lecture on “Quantum Black Holes” at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre.

Hawking, an English theoretical physicist suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease, has just proposed a new theory that when something gets sucked into a black hole, something is not trapped forever.

He said he had discovered a mechanism “by which information is returned out of the black hole”, a place where gravity compresses matter to a point where the usual laws of physics break down.

According to Hawking, it does in one of two ways.

A very old theory states that nothing is ever lost, everything is transformed and if we relate that to what Stephen Hawking has recently declared, it could mean that black holes are not the end of information at all, but the beginning of a completely new something, something that is still unknown to us but definitely well imagined. Black holes are large structures and if they are rotating, they might have a passage to another universe. But you couldn’t come back to our universe.

“The existence of alternative histories with black holes suggests this might be possible”, Hawking said, according to a report from Stockholm University.

“So though I am eager on area flight, I am not going to attempt that”, he joked. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. Black holes aren’t as black as they’re painted. First, you become permanently stuck in its two-dimensional storage hologram on the black hole’s murky edge, or secondly, you rocket right through the other end and portal into another universe you will be forever a captive of.

The theory solves the “information paradox” that has puzzled scientists for decades.