Artificial Event Horizon Emits Laboratory Analogue to Theoretical Black Hole Radiation
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 17:42
in Astronomy & Space
Stephen Hawking is famous for many things: provocative best-selling books, Simpsons guest stints and his long and productive life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among them. In the field of astrophysics, the University of Cambridge physicist is also known for his work on gravity and black holes, including his 1974 postulation of the eponymous Hawking radiation , a phenomenon by which a black hole should give off a stream of particles from its outer boundary. [More] Black hole - Hawking radiation - Event horizon - Physics - University of Cambridge