Hawking radiation
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Hawking radiation is radiation released outside a black hole's event horizon due to quantum effects according to a model developed by Stephen Hawking in 1974. This black-body radiation was not predict
Diagram by Jacob Bekenstein of the entropy on a black hole's event horizon.
Black hole evaporation takes a long time relative to the current age of the universe, for black holes larger than a proton in diameter.
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Stephen Hawking
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Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between
Hawking radiation
…Hawking radiation is radiation released outside a black hole's event horizon due to quantum effects according to a model developed by Stephen Hawking in 1974. This black-body radiation was not predicted by previous models which assumed that once electromagnetic radiation is inside the event horizon…
Hawking, c. 1980
A 2009 image of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 by the Chandra X-ray Observatory
Hawking, with David Gross and Edward Witten at the 2001 Strings Conference at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India.
Hawking in 2006