While writing his book, 'The history of Time', the greatest physicist of our time, Stephen Hawkings might have grinned on the oppertunity to write the mistake Albert Einstein made while explaining the theory of relativity. The person who now holds the chair once Newton held, is now claiming that he also made the mistake while explaining the property of a black hole. Read on>> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996151 I was quite amazed to see the news on the TV and immediately searched websites for more info. By the time I am posting this, this is the only site I got any information on the news. Hawkings is scheduled to give a speech on July 21st at Dublin. He probably will say that the black hole doesn't 'engulf' all the matter that comes to the proximity but rather it is one massive chunk that keeps on radiating (Hawkins radiation) (see the link, it talks about the paradox).