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Feb 8, 2020

We May Finally Have a Way to Detect Hawking Radiation Leaking From Black Holes

Posted by in categories: cosmology, quantum physics

O.o!


The epic collision between two neutron stars in 2017 really is the science gift that keeps on giving. As they merged, gravitational waves rippled out across the Universe; now reverberations from that event could confirm a decades-old hypothesis about black holes.

Astronomers poring over the gravitational wave data believe they have found evidence of echoes — something that would only occur in the presence of the ‘quantum fuzz’ produced by Hawking radiation.

“According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, nothing can escape from the gravity of a black hole once it has passed a point of no return, known as the event horizon,” said astronomer and physicist Niayesh Afshordi of the University of Waterloo in Canada.

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