Hawking in a thousand words
Popular Physics
2025-10-28 v1
Abstract
British physicist Stephen Hawkings most important discovery was that black holes are not so black, as they possess a temperature and emit thermal radiation. In his popular science texts, Hawking offered a detailed explanation of this phenomenon. The aim of this work is to translate that explanation into mathematical language accessible to an advanced high school student, all within a thousand words.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.21790,
title = {Hawking in a thousand words},
author = {Jorge Pinochet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.21790},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures