Black holes represent regions of space-time that can store information on their surfaces rather than destroying it.

“what Hawking and beckenstein really did was they showed that physics is inconsistent unless a black hole can store an a number of gigabytes proportional to its area divided by four times Newton's constant times Planck's Constant”

Information that falls into a black hole is not destroyed but is encoded in the resulting Hawking radiation.

“it's now widely accepted that all the information that fell into the black hole over time including the star that built it the whole lot ends up imprinted heavily scrambled as chuck said really scrambled up and imprinted in the hawking radiation that came out”

Information that falls into a black hole is preserved and transferred to the radiation emitted as the black hole evaporates.

“The large majority of people who think about this believe that the information is somehow transferred to the radiation and information is conserved.”

A black hole is defined as an object containing so much mass in such a small space that its gravitational pull prevents even light from escaping.

“a black hole is an object with so much mass in such a small space that not even light can escape its gravitational pull”

A black hole is defined by an event horizon where gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape.

“and the interesting and defining thing about a black hole and this is what we all probably know about is that there's this membrane called The Event Horizon around the black hole and that's the point outside the singularity where gravity is so strong that even light can't escape”