Tag Archive for 'Hawking radiation'

An artist’s impression of a neutron star that is ‘evaporating’ slowly via Hawking-like radiation. Image credit: Daniëlle Futselaar / Artsource.nl.

Objects in Our Universe Evaporate Faster than Thought, Scientists Say

May 12, 2025 by News Staff

In a 2023 paper, Professor Heino Falcke and his colleagues at Radboud University showed that not only black holes, but also all other objects in the Universe...

An artist’s rendition of a giant star in orbit around a low-mass black hole. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

All Large Objects in Universe Will Eventually Evaporate, Astrophysicists Say

Jun 5, 2023 by News Staff

According to quantum mechanics, a vacuum state is populated by virtual particle pairs undergoing spontaneous creation and annihilation processes. These...

Quantum scrambling is one suggestion for how information can fall into a black hole and come out as random-looking radiation. Perhaps, the argument goes, it is not random at all, and black holes are just excellent scramblers. Image credit: E. Edwards / Joint Quantum Institute.

Physicists Use Seven-Qubit Quantum Computer to Simulate Scrambling inside Black Holes

Mar 7, 2019 by News Staff

A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute, the University of Maryland, the University of California Berkeley and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical...