Hawking Evaporation Means Everything Will Eventually Dissipate

A new study has found that Hawking evaporation can take place beyond the range of a black hole’s event horizon. Find out why this means that everything in the universe will eventually evaporate.

My first exposure to Stephen Hawking’s ideas came from an audiobook I happened upon when I was spending a lot of time in my car doing business travel. It was an audio version of his essay Black Holes and Baby Universes.

I listened to the essay during my long commutes. From it, I learned about Hawking’s influential discoveries concerning black holes and especially Hawking radiation.

It was a thought-provoking essay, and I let it loop over and over to make sure I caught everything and understood it correctly. I appreciated not only the science but Hawking’s brutal honesty about his ordeal with ALS and his skill at connecting this abstract topic to our place within the universe.

Hawking Challenged Conventional Wisdom on Black Holes

Based on classical physics, the conventional wisdom was that nothing, not even light, could ever escape a black hole’s gravity once it was inside a boundary…