{"id":25044,"date":"2016-04-26T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T21:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/physicists-might-soon-be-able-to-prove-one-of-stephen-hawkings-theories-on-black-holes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:32","slug":"physicists-might-soon-be-able-to-prove-one-of-stephen-hawkings-theories-on-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/physicists-might-soon-be-able-to-prove-one-of-stephen-hawkings-theories-on-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"Physicists might soon be able to prove one of Stephen Hawking\u2019s theories on black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-might-soon-be-able-to-prove-one-of-stephen-hawkings-theories-on-black-holes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Some 42 years ago, renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking proposed that not everything that comes in contact with a black hole succumbs to its unfathomable nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>Tiny particles of light (photons) are sometimes ejected back out, robbing the black hole of an infinitesimal amount of energy, and this gradual loss of mass over time means every black hole eventually evaporates out of existence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stephen-hawking-just-published-new-solution-to-the-black-hole-information-paradox\" rel=\"nofollow\">Known as Hawking radiation<\/a>, these escaping particles help us make sense of one of the greatest enigmas in the known Universe, but after more than four decades, no one\u2019s been able to actually prove they exist, and Hawking\u2019s proposal remained firmly in hypothesis territory.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/physicists-might-soon-be-able-to-prove-hawking-radiation-2016-4\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/physicists-might-soon-be-able...2016&#45;4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice Some 42 years ago, renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking proposed that not everything that comes in contact with a black hole succumbs to its unfathomable nothingness. Tiny particles of light (photons) are sometimes ejected back out, robbing the black hole of an infinitesimal amount of energy, and this gradual loss of mass over time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67636,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25044\/revisions\/67636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}