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No this is not correct. His change of mind has nothing to do with time travel. Hawking had believed that anything swallowed by a black hole was forever hidden from the outside universe. John Preskill, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, bet that the information carried by an object was not destroyed when it entered a black hole and could actually be recovered. 30 years after the initial bet, Preskill proved him wrong, and won the bet.
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What do you think of each of their explanations of what happens to the information? It seems to me Hawking couldn't handle that Preskill was right in the bet, so he came up with his alternate and very far-fetched theory of what happens to the information.