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Stephen W. Hawking
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 280
Citations - 95342
Stephen W. Hawking is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Black hole & Quantum gravity. The author has an hindex of 106, co-authored 279 publications receiving 86900 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen W. Hawking include California Institute of Technology & Max Planck Society.
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Particle Creation by Black Holes
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that quantum mechanical effects cause black holes to create and emit particles as if they were hot bodies with temperature, which leads to a slow decrease in the mass of the black hole and to its eventual disappearance.
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The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the General Theory of Relativity in the large and discuss the significance of space-time curvature and the global properties of a number of exact solutions of Einstein's field equations.
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Black hole explosions
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that any black hole will create and emit particles such as neutrinos or photons at just the rate that one would expect if the black hole was a body with a temperature of (κ/2π) (ħ/2k) ≈ 10−6 (M/M)K where κ is the surface gravity of the body.
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The four laws of black hole mechanics
TL;DR: This article derived expressions for the mass of a stationary axisymmetric solution of the Einstein equations containing a black hole surrounded by matter and for the difference in mass between two neighboring such solutions.
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Action Integrals and Partition Functions in Quantum Gravity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived finite, purely imaginary values for the actions of the Kerr-Newman solutions and de Sitter space, which they used to evaluate the entropy of these metrics and find that it is always equal to one quarter the area of the event horizon in fundamental units.