A couple of things from the BBC
First is Steven Hawking says that infomation can get out of black holes, which is a dramatic shift from the eariler view that once something with information encoded in it falls into a black hole the information it carries is destroyed. From reading the article it seems that once a Black hole has lost most of it's mass through emitting Hawking Radiation it will "Open Up" and lose it's event horizon allowing the information that it swallowed to escape. This is opposed to the end that Hawking originally theorised, that the radiation output would continuw increasing until it finally disappeared in a blast of Gamma rays taking all the information that it swallowed with it.
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