Publish at November 21 2018 Updated January 08 2026
A posthumous work by Stephen Hawking will be released on October 17, 2018. Called "Brief answers to the great questions of our time", the collection brings together several texts by the physicist, who died on March 14.
Obviously, the book includes some of his questions about black holes, those cosmic monsters that have defied the imagination of researchers for almost a century. Hawking himself made a major contribution to research into these celestial objects, notably by envisaging that their radiation could cause the information that enters them to disappear: a phenomenon contrary to the laws of physics today. Here are some explanations.
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