Hawking concedes the information bet

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At the seventeenth International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Dublin, Stephen Hawking announced that he now believed information escapes an evaporating black hole after all, conceding the 1997 wager he and Kip Thorne had made against John Preskill and paying the agreed forfeit, a baseball encyclopedia. Thorne did not concede. The argument Hawking offered was not widely accepted as a resolution, and the problem remained open; the episode is included because it is often reported as the moment the paradox was settled, which it was not.

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