English Explanatory Dictionary

Hawking radiation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The radiation presumed to be given off by a black hole by quantum mechanical processes.

Word forms

Hawking radiation

Etymology

Named after English physicist Stephen Hawking.

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