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Published online 15 July 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040712-12
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Hawking changes his mind about black holes
Physicist plans to pay up on long-standing bet.
The eminent physicist Stephen Hawking has conceded that information can escape from black holes after all. The idea has been gaining popularity with physicists for some time, but the fact that Hawking, a pioneer of black-hole theory in the 1970s, has finally accepted it is something of a watershed.
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