Stephen Hawking has died peacefully ... helped transform the way scientists view black holes and the universe. As well his contribution to science, Hawking was a philosopher of sorts, a powerful ...

Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event horizon — yet new research suggests it may secretly leak information. That leakage would appear in subtle signatures in gravitational waves ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information.

Hawking radiation is a theoretical prediction that black holes can emit radiation due to quantum effects near their event horizons. This concept, introduced by physicist Stephen Hawking in the ...

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary ... It had always been thought that nothing could escape a black hole; Hawking suggested that under certain conditions, a black hole could emit ...

Stephen Hawking would have been "blown away" by the first close-up image of the black hole that was published on Wednesday, his daughter has told Business Insider. Lucy Hawking said Thursday that ...

Stephen Hawking was the most ... has led to his greatest discoveries. Hawking was now working on one of science's most bizarre ideas – black holes. An extreme prediction of Einstein's general ...

["Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays," 1994] "If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our universe but in a mangled form which contains the information ...