British physicist Stephen Hawking has made surprising revelations in the past about black holes, but this time he has surprised even more by saying that "there are no black holes".

He actually said that there is no denying the fact that massive gravitational singularities that lurk at the center of many galaxies do not exist. But, it is wrong to say that black hole is an eternal trap and does not even allow light to escape from its surface.

"The absence of event horizons means that there are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are, however, apparent horizons which persist for a period of time", wrote Hawking in a brief paper submitted to the ArXiv.org preprint database.

The paper by Hawkins is titled as 'Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes'. Through the paper, Hawking has tried to provide a better insight into black holes and what happens to objects that fall into them.

Hawking affirmed that black holes actually have a mushier barrier he calls an 'apparent horizon'. He said apparent horizon is firm enough to hold stuff in, but it is not so firm that it can generate a ring of fire.

Other physicists have revealed most recently that there was a cosmic firewall dividing the inner region of a black hole's event horizon from the outside. And anything that fell through the event horizon turned to less than a crisp.

Hawking said that everything in black hole would still remain there. However, the information would get too scrambled up and ultimately get lost.