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, 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
Black hole
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A black hole is an astronomical body so compact that its gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes gravitation as the c
An image of the core region of Messier 87, a supermassive black hole, processed from a sparse array of radio telescopes known as the EHT with colours indicating brightness temperature
The first simulated image of a black hole, published by Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1979 and featuring the characteristic shadow, photon sphere, and lensed accretion disk. The disk is brighter on one side due to Doppler beaming.
Image by the Event Horizon Telescope of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87
Relativistic jets from the supermassive black hole in Centaurus A extend perpendicularly from the galaxy.