  We propose here that the well-known black hole paradoxes such as the
information loss and teleological nature of the event horizon are restricted to
a particular idealized case, which is the homogeneous dust collapse model. In
this case, the event horizon, which defines the boundary of the black hole,
forms initially, and the singularity in the interior of the black hole at a
later time. We show that, in contrast, gravitational collapse from physically
more realistic initial conditions typically leads to the scenario in which the
event horizon and space-time singularity form simultaneously. We point out that
this apparently simple modification can mitigate the causality and teleological
paradoxes, and also lends support to two recently suggested solutions to the
information paradox, namely, the `firewall' and `classical chaos' proposals.
