Stephen Hawking challenges everything we thought we knew about black holes

Those of us who were raised on science fiction shows and books know that black holes are something to be avoided since they will inevitably suck your spaceship into an infinitely dense void from which nothing — not even light — can escape. However, physicist Stephen Hawking has proposed a new theory about black holes that suggests they not be as all-powerful as we once thought, although you still would never want fly into one. RELATED: Stephen Hawking uses theoretical physics to comfort h...