• Hawking radiation is the theoretical thermal black-body radiation released outside a black hole's event horizon. This is counterintuitive because once...
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    theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Initially, Hawking radiation was controversial. By the late 1970s, and...
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    evaporates away entirely through Hawking radiation. Hawking's calculation suggests that the final state of radiation would retain information only about...
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    field theory in curved spacetime predicts that event horizons emit Hawking radiation, with the same spectrum as a black body of a temperature inversely...
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    star-forming wake of a candidate runaway black hole. Hawking radiation is black-body radiation that is predicted to be released by black holes, due to...
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  • This allows them to become real and the positive particle escapes as Hawking radiation, while the negative-energy particle reduces the black hole's net energy...
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    they absorb all the radiation that falls on them. It has been proposed that they emit blackbody radiation (called Hawking radiation) with a temperature...
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    year, in 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit thermal Hawking radiation corresponding to a certain temperature (Hawking temperature). Using...
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  • astrophysicists through the particles they are expected to emit by Hawking radiation. Some hypotheses involving additional space dimensions predict that...
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  • the Planck scale. In black hole physics, the original derivation of Hawking radiation involved field modes that, near the black hole horizon, have arbitrarily...
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