For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

One of the most profound messages Stephen Hawking left humanity with is that ... This was interesting because quantum theory and general relativity are two theories that notoriously resist ...

Stephen Hawking had a simple response when he was asked if he believed in God. As one of the world's most famous scientists, ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

The BBC's Pallab Ghosh explains how Prof Stephen Hawking's final ... Instead, the Hartle-Hawking idea used a different theory called quantum mechanics to explain how the Universe arose from ...

(JTA) — Stephen Hawking, the famed physicist who died ... But in 1974, Hawking proved Bekenstein’s idea through a complicated quantum theory calculation. At first he kept the calculation ...

Prof Stephen Hawking has died aged 76 ... the history of the cosmos in one mathematical expression. But quantum theory shows that the distinctions between space and time are unclear.

Using the principles of quantum physics, he predicted that even though nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event ...

Stephen Hawking was born ... (gravity) with quantum mechanics (the inner workings of atoms). This contributed enormously to what physicists call Grand Unified Theory, a way of explaining, in ...

The scientists from Radboud University were examining Stephen Hawking's theory of how ... According to quantum physics theory and Einstein's theory of gravity, particles spontaneously form and ...

Stephen Hawking was the most recognisable scientist ... One of the ideas underpinning quantum theory is that physical properties of subatomic particles (or 'information') cannot be destroyed.

Twenty years after A Brief History of Time flummoxed the world with its big numbers and black holes its author Stephen Hawking concedes that the ultimate theory hed believed to be imminent which ...