Is that the bet-losing effect Hawking found in his equations last year? I had heard it was information rather than matter, but I know only what I heard, or misheard.
Hawking contended that information could not escape a black hole. He made a bet to that effect with John Preskill of CalTech. Last year Hawking concluded that information could escape but Preskill was unconvinced ny Hawkings proof. At any rate Hawking paid up.