Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would ...

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 ...

black. Stephen Hawking famously discovered that black holes can lose mass by emitting elementary particles. (Quantum mechanics allows matter/antimatter pairs to spontaneously form and quickly ...

(JTA) — Stephen Hawking, the famed physicist who died Wednesday ... essential work on the cosmic gravitational fields known as black holes, he got into a disagreement with Jacob Bekenstein ...

Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes emit radiation, wrote the best-selling book A Brief History of Time, and inspired the movie The Theory of Everything during his lifetime. His long list ...

Stephen Hawking has died peacefully at home at the ... it is safe to say he defied the odds and helped transform the way scientists view black holes and the universe. As well his contribution ...

Stephen Hawking has died peacefully at home aged 76. The physicist made his name with theories on black holes and relativity, but he was many things to many people. Growing up some might have ...

Stephen Hawking was the most recognisable scientist ... Hawking was now working on one of science's most bizarre ideas – black holes. An extreme prediction of Einstein's general theory of ...

Stephen Hawking had been growing increasingly unsteady ... put forward groundbreaking theories about the nature of black holes, areas of space-time with an intense gravitational pull from which ...

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary ... There he became intrigued with black holes (first proposed by Robert Oppenheimer) and "space-time singularities," or events in which the ...

Professor Stephen Hawking delivers this year’s BBC Reith Lectures on black holes. Professor Hawking takes us through the history of scientific thinking about black holes, and explains how they ...