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Hawking said he wanted the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy equation engraved on his tombstone. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining ...

Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein calculated the entropy of a black hole in the 1970s, but it took physicists until now to figure out the quantum effects that make the formula work ...

Galileo's telescope opened the skies to observation; Hawking's equations made the invisible visible, from black holes to the Big Bang. It's staggering to think about what these two men accomplished.

Hawking grew up outside London in an intellectual ... a way of explaining, in one equation, all physical matter in the universe. At the remarkably young age of 32, he was named a fellow of the ...