Hawking’s calculations showed that the radiation should be random, offering no way to predict what types of particles will emerge. The problem was that anything that falls into a black hole contains information – what sorts of particles it is made of, their config...
Hawking's new work is an attempt to solve what is known as the black-hole firewall paradox, which has been vexing physicists for almost two years, after it was discovered by theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski of the Kavli Institute and his colleagues (see 'Astrophysics: Fire in the hole...
Stephen Hawking has a new mind-bending theory about black holes, the bizarre cosmic objects that cemented his reputation as the world’s most famous living scientist. Rather than getting sucked into a singularity of confusion, read our explainer What exactly is a black hole? Good question. Accor...
The article looks at research in theoretical physics, focusing on the potential conflict between the work of physicist Stephen Hawking on the problem of information entering black holes and an experimental result reported by physicists in the Netherlands supporting the concept of quantum entanglement. ...
This artist's concept shows a black hole's surroundings, including its accretion disk, jet and magnetic field. (Image credit: ESO/L. Calçada) Black holes may sport a luxurious head of "hair" made up of ghostly, zero-energy particles, says a new hypothesis proposed by Stephen Hawki...
Origins of the Primordial Black Hole Stephen Hawking first mentioned primordial black holes (PBHs) in the 1970s as he developed his ideas for cosmology, findings that were a potential consequence of the radiation-dominated universe, a brief period in the early history of the universe. In a rand...
There have been several alternative approaches, along with “firewall theories” in which material was expected to burn away before approaching the black hole, a “fuzzball theory” in which black holes were considered to have ambiguous bounds, and other exotic aspects of theoretical physics. Howev...
Stephen Hawking developed several unusual and ground-breaking ideas about black holes. Here are just a few of them.
According to Stephen Hawking, information never really enter the black hole. “The information is stored not in the interior of the black hole as one might expect, but on its boundary, the event horizon” – Stephen Hawking As an object enters the black hole, its information is captured and...
Stephen Hawking hasn't changed his mind about the whole black hole thing, but he has thrown a complex physics paradox into the limelight, one that has been gnawing at the heart of theoretical physics for the last 18 months. Black Hole Fight Club Sign up for the Live Science daily newslette...