'Black holes' created in a LAB confirm Stephen Hawking's radiation theory - and they could win the physicist the Nobel Prize
02 May, 2016
- Hawking's theory couldn't be proven, as it didn't relate effects of radiation
- Most believed impossible for information to hide while black hole shrunk
- Two separate groups of researchers have evidence to back up these claims
- These discoveries could help win the physicist the Nobel Prizε
For forty years ago, Stephen Hawking famously announced black holes evaporate and shrink because they emit radiation.
This so-called 'Hawking radiation' was a revolutionary theory, but due to the fragile nature of the escaping radiation, has been difficult to prove.
Now, two separate groups of researchers have discovered evidence to back up Hawking's claims - and their discoveries could finally help win the eminent physicist a Nobel Prize.
There has been a long standing belief that when a black hole dies, everything inside is destroyed.
Hawking's theory states that black holes should have the ability to thermally create and emit sub-atomic particles until they are completely depleted of their energy, known as Hawking radiation.