In his later years, Hawking continued ... isn't a black hole, because matter can escape it. Instead, another possible, though problematic, way to conceptualize it is as a "white hole ...

Black holes "ain't as black as they were painted," Stephen Hawking told his audience Monday evening at a public lecture in Stockholm. The renowned physicist was in town for a conference at the KTH ...

Five decades ago, famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking theorized that the Big Bang may have flooded the universe with tiny black holes. Now, researchers believe they may have seen one explode.

There's a lot we still don't know about black holes, but these light-gobbling behemoths would be even more mysterious if Stephen Hawking hadn't plumbed their inky depths. For starters, the famed ...

Most astronomers now believe that black holes lie at the center of most, if not all, galaxies, including our own Milky Way. But at the time of Hawking’s birth in 1942, black holes were little ...

Mathematical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking was best known for his work exploring the relationship between black holes and quantum physics. A black hole is the remnant of a dying ...

For the past few decades, black holes have been at the center of a paradoxical problem -- a problem famed physicist Stephen Hawking now believes ... an object called a white hole on the other ...

The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics. WIRED met Stephen Hawking the day after his lecture; his nurse, Patricia Dowdy, held his hand ...

This week, Stephen Hawking launched a new research initiative into black holes, working with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to learn more about what are increasingly strange ...

It would be a tiny black hole, for sure, with a fleeting existence, for it would instantly evaporate through the emission of Hawking radiation. At the same time, if Stephen and Heuer's hope to ...

British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is known for his predictions regarding black holes. Hawking, for example, is famous for theorizing the idea black holes do indeed very gradually emit ...

Physicist Stephen Hawking ... explain how massive stars turn into black holes and how singularities can exist in space-time. The first popular book that Hawking wrote, "A Brief History of Time ...