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THEORETICAL PHYSICS: Hawking Slays His Own Paradox, But Colleagues Are Wary
Charles Seife
DUBLIN, IRELAND--Stephen Hawking claimed last week that he had solved one of the most important problems in physics: whether black holes destroy the information they swallow.