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Hawking radiation

Definition of Hawking radiation

noun

[mass noun] Physics
  • electromagnetic radiation which, according to theory, should be emitted by a black hole. The radiation is due to the black hole capturing one of a particle-antiparticle pair created spontaneously near to the event horizon.

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