It has been almost 40 years since famous physicist Stephen Hawking claimed that the universe is inherently unpredictable. Recently at a conference Hawing took the stage and announced that he has himself resolved all the contradictions about black holes.

This was not for the first time when Hawking announced that he had solved his own paradox. There have been several such announcements that in the end did not convince.

His paper that created the paradox shaking the physics community was submitted for publication in August 25th, 1975, but it took a year to be published due to its controversial nature.

Hawking argued that the radiation effect that he had just discovered leads to the ultimate evaporation of black holes, and violates one of our most cherished laws of physics, namely time-reversal invariance.

As per this law, all the microscopic processes can in principle run forwards just as well as backward, implies the predictability of the future.

This paradox was termed as ‘information paradox’, because the loss of predictability can be seen to be a consequence of losing the information that fell into the black hole in the past.

This paradox states that according to the theory of general relativity, the physical information of an object swallowed by a black hole is completely destroyed.

Since past 40 years, physicists have made several attempts to resolve the contradictions. Now the great physicist during the ‘Hawking Radiation Conference’ at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm made an announcement that he had figured out how to solve the paradox, and that information is in fact not lost to the universe, it’s just badly scrambled.