Hawking proposes solution to black hole problem
Information about interior encoded by ‘supertranslation’ of light, physicist suggests
![illustration of a ring of light around a black hole](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/082615_ag_hawkingblackhole_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
RECORDED IN LIGHT A ring of light surrounds the boundary of a black hole in this artist illustration. Stephen Hawking theorizes that light on this boundary encodes information about everything that falls into the black hole.
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