According to previous scientific theories, a black hole is an enormous amount of space that has a strong gravitational field not any form of matter, even light could escape. Stephen Hawking, however, thinks there's a possible way for information to get out of the black hole, The Huffington Post reports.

Talking in front of scientists and reporters on Tuesday, August 25 at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the famous British physicist explains how information can actually escape the black hole. "This has been an outstanding problem in theoretical physics for the last 40 years," Hawking said.

"Despite the large number of papers," he stated, "I propose that the information is stored not in the interior of the black hole as one might expect but on its boundary, the event horizon," the famed physicist points out.

The event horizon is an energy sphere that wraps around the black hole. According to Wired, anything that falls into a black hole has a great chance to escape since it's not even sucked inside.

Scientists, unfortunately, could not directly look inside a black hole and observe its activities with the use of telescopes that can detect light and other electromagnetic radiations. "As the attracted matter accelerates and heats up, it emits x-rays that radiate into space." According to NASA, studying a black hole can only be conducted by observing its effects on objects and any forms of matter nearby.

As stated on its website, "recent discoveries offer some tantalizing evidence that black holes have a dramatic influence on the neighborhoods around them - emitting powerful gamma ray bursts, devouring nearby stars, and spurring the growth of new stars in some areas while stalling it in others."

Hawking's new idea, though, sparks further questions on whatever is actually going on inside of it.