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Hawking radiation (S.W. Hawking; 1973)

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Definition: Hawking radiation (S.W. Hawking; 1973): A theory first proposed by British physicist Stephen Hawking, that due to a combination of properties of quantum mechanics and gravity, under certain conditions black holes can seem to emit radiation.

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