On March 14 ,the world received the news that the legendary physicist Professor Stephen Hawking had died at the age of 76. Paying tribute to their father, his three children – Lucy, Robert and Tim – said “he once said, ‘it would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people […]
It is a paradox that has long troubled scientists. A black hole is a region of spacetime where the effects of gravity are so powerful that supposedly nothing, including light and other forms of radiation, can escape from it. They are hard for a human brain to comprehend, but mathematically they make sense. In fact, […]