When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of a black hole accretion disk glowing with radiation. New research suggests that ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Geralt via Pixabay Primordial black holes (PBHs), which are thought to have formed right ...

Stephen Hawking spent his career turning mind bending ideas into testable physics, from evaporating black holes to the fate ...

Black holes, those enigmatic celestial objects with gravitational pulls so strong that even light cannot escape, are not eternal. Despite their formidable nature, they evaporate over time through a ...

In 1974 Stephen Hawking famously claimed that black holes should emit particles as well as absorb them. This so-called "Hawking radiation" has not yet been observed, but now a research group from ...

Stephen Hawking suggested nothing lasts forever, including black holes. Scientists may have a way to prove it at last. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A team of UBC physicists and engineers have designed an experiment featuring a trough of flowing water to help bolster a 35-year-old theory proposed by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking. In 1974, ...

Researchers have found that the universe around us is decaying far more quickly than we thought, thanks to Hawking radiation, the idea that black holes “evaporate” over time due to the quirks of ...

Analogue models of black holes offer an innovative experimental framework to probe phenomena that otherwise lie at the frontiers of astrophysics. By utilising systems such as superfluid helium, atomic ...

The researchers calculated that the end of the universe is about 10^78 years away (a 1 with 78 zeros), if only Hawking-like radiation is taken into account. This is the time it takes for white dwarf ...