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Hawking radiation
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radiation with a blackbody spectrum radiated from an event horizon
Hawking radiation is energy that escapes from black holes in the form of radiation with a blackbody spectrum, emitted from the event horizon (the point of no return). This matters because it means black holes aren't completely black and can eventually evaporate, which fundamentally connects quantum mechanics and gravity in ways physicists are still working to understand.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Hawking radiation is referenced by 354 other articles, and connects out to Planck units, Albert Einstein and Black hole.
It sits within the topics 1974 introductions, Astronomical hypotheses and Black holes.
Its subject is documented across 55 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- hypothesis
- Named after
- Stephen Hawking
- Image
- Stephen Hawking's grave at Westminster Abbey.jpg
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- has cause
- Black hole
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Stack Exchange tag
- astronomy.stackexchange.com/tags/hawking-radiation
- proved by
- Stephen Hawking
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