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Hawking Radiation

PBS Space Time · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Cosmology & astrophysicsQuantum physics

What it is

PBS Space Time explains Stephen Hawking's prediction of Hawking radiation and how black holes can emit radiation and slowly evaporate. It goes beyond the common particle-antiparticle analogy.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as an accessible and correct explanation of Hawking radiation for non-physicists.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “short, informative, and very well done”

    Short episodes preparing you to understand Hawking radiation.

    chasd00, 2019-08 · Strong recommendation · in “How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?”

  2. “PBS space time does a good job here”

    Clear explanation of Hawking radiation.

    InclinedPlane, 2019-01 · Recommendation · in “Black Hole Evolution Traced Out with Loop Quantum Gravity”

  3. “explains it really well while keeping it accessible for non-physicists”

    Accessible explanation beyond the particle-antiparticle analogy.

    nocturnial, 2019-04 · Recommendation · in “The Day Feynman Worked Out Black-Hole Radiation on My Blackboard”

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Topics: hawking radiation, black holes, pbs space time, astrophysics

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