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Hawking radiation

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Hawking radiation

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Also known as Unruh radiation, black hole evaporation

radiation with a blackbody spectrum radiated from an event horizon

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Hawking radiation is energy that escapes from black holes in the form of radiation with a blackbody spectrum, emitted from the event horizon (the point of no return). This matters because it means black holes aren't completely black and can eventually evaporate, which fundamentally connects quantum mechanics and gravity in ways physicists are still working to understand.

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hypothesis
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Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking's grave at Westminster Abbey.jpg
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