I know of his black hole, complete destruction of matter, problem...a plumber from the Bronx(my home town) whupped his butt.
I liked a lot of what Hawking has done....he has made his physics (’brief history...’) readable by guys like me...but the elitist pseudo intellectual in him has skewed him way too leftist for my liking of late...
Even Stephen admitted his mistake in a specific area of black holes.