Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes emit radiation, wrote the best-selling book A Brief History of Time, and inspired the movie The Theory of Everything during his lifetime. His long list ...

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For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information. That ...