Stephen Hawking and colleagues have a new paper about how information may be preserved by black holes. EXTRAS CUT FROM THIS INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/ML5zJ0gCE70 The Hawking paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00921 See also: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.01147.pdf Discussed by Tony Padilla from the University of Nottingham. Some notes: We filmed this well before Hawking's paper came out but decided it was still interesting to watch. Gary Neville is a former Manchester United footballer. Tony (like many Liverpool football fans) does not have much affection for Mr Neville, hence using him in the black hole analogy! Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We're on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sixtysymbols And Twitter at http://twitter.com/sixtysymbols This project features scientists from The University of Nottingham http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran http://www.bradyharanblog.com Email list: http://eepurl.com/YdjL9