Hawking radiation

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Hawking radiation

A form of radiation believed to emanate from black holes, arising from the creation of pairs of subatomic particles in the space adjacent to the black hole, with one particle falling into the black hole and the other radiating away. The energy lost to such radiated particles is believed to cause the eventual disappearance of the black hole.

[After Stephen William Hawking.]

Hawking radiation

(Astronomy) astronomy the emission of particles by a black hole. Pairs of virtual particles in the intense gravitational field around a black hole may live long enough for one to move outward when the other is pulled into the black hole, making it appear that the black hole is emitting radiation

[C20: discovered by Stephen Hawking]

Translations

radiazione di Hawking

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Unruh and Hawking temperatures both share the common form T = ha/2[pi]c[k.

It is generally thought that Planck particles are incapable of evaporating since their high Hawking temperatures preclude the black body radiation of significantly lighter particles.