The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is a 2008 popular science book by American theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind. The book covers the b
Hawking radiation is 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 prev
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.