Hawking shows that black holes radiate

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1. Story
2. Applying quantum field theory to the curved spacetime around a horizon, Stephen Hawking found that a black hole emits a thermal spectrum at a temperature inversely proportional to its mass, and published the result in Nature under the title "Black hole explosions?". The calculation vindicated Bekenstein's entropy proposal and fixed its coefficient, and it made black holes objects that lose mass and can in principle disappear. For every known astrophysical black hole the predicted temperature is far below that of the cosmic microwave background, so the effect has never been observed.
3. Knowledge
4. Hawking radiation
5. Black hole entropy
6. Stephen Hawking
7. Hawking shows that black holes radiate
8. Connections
9. Hawking radiation
10. Stephen Hawking
11. Black hole entropy
12. Stephen Hawking
13. Black hole entropy
14. The black hole information paradox
15. Hawking shows that black holes radiate
16. Hawking argues that information is destroyed
17. The Page curve is reproduced from within semiclassical gravity
18. Hawking radiation
19. Hawking shows that black holes radiate
20. Hawking argues that information is destroyed
21. Hawking concedes the information bet
22. The event horizon
23. Jacob Bekenstein
24. Hawking radiation
25. Bekenstein assigns entropy to a black hole
26. Hawking shows that black holes radiate
27. Page states what unitarity requires of the radiation
28. The Page curve is reproduced from within semiclassical gravity
29. Evidence
30. Derives thermal emission from a black hole horizon at a temperature inversely proportional to mass. V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: not consulted in session; no research tool was available. Volume and page are from recall of a canonical citation and must be checked. The fuller treatment appeared in Communications in Mathematical Physics in 1975 and is deliberately not cited by volume here.