Sentences with phrase «faint radiation emitted»

The Unruh effect is closely related to Hawking radiation, extremely faint radiation emitted by a black hole at a temperature determined by its mass.

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Upon Hawking's death on March 14 at age 76, his most famous discovery — that black holes aren't entirely black, but emit faint radiation — was still fueling debate.

Instead, they emit a faint haze of particles, known as Hawking radiation (SN: 5/31/14, p. 16).

The most advanced civilizations will be reduced to huddling around the last flickering embers of energy — the faint Hawking radiation emitted by black holes.

Although not even light can escape their gravity, Hawking calculated that black holes should nonetheless emit a faint glow, now called Hawking radiation.

Since Lew Snyder and David Buhl discovered interstellar formaldehyde in 1969, astronomers have identified more than 150 molecules in deep space, mostly by using radio telescopes to detect the faint radiation the molecules emit.