Yakov Zeldovich
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Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich, also known as YaB, was a leading Soviet physicist of Belarusian origin, who is known for his prolific contributions in physical cosmology, physics of thermonuclear reaction
Zeldovich on a 2014 Russian Post stamp
Zeldovich (right) with astrophysicist Iosif Shklovsky in 1977
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
Yakov Zeldovich
…initially at relative rest are displaced after the passing of a burst of gravitational radiation. Zeldovich played a key role in developing the theory of black hole evaporation due to Hawking radiation. Zeldovich and Charles W. Misner concomitantly predicted the possibility of particle generation by rotating Kerr black holes…
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.
Black hole Messier 87 crop max res