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Hawking in a thousand words

2025/10/19 by Pinochet, Jorge
#FOS: Physical sciences #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2510.21790

Abstract

British physicist Stephen Hawkings most important discovery was that black holes are not so black, as they possess a temperature and emit thermal radiation. In his popular science texts, Hawking offered a detailed explanation of this phenomenon. The aim of this work is to translate that explanation into mathematical language accessible to an advanced high school student, all within a thousand words.

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