What is a Black Hole? - Stephen Hawking's final theory

This makes me wonder: How many information does, say, a star "hold"? Is there a "bit" of information for each property of any particle of that star; which would make the event horizon of a black hole that consumed this star quite packed with information. To a dimension where the event horizon must be as "information heavy" as the black hole itself.  Or, is the sum of information of a star something like "Helium is this-and-that and we have so-much-quantillion-of-it-as-of-now" and from that meta-ly information one could reconstruct the star exactly on the point that the star was consumed by the black hole. Or how else is "information" to be understood?