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Black holes and bits: A simple path to Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
Jorge Pinochet
In the early 1970s, Jacob Bekenstein discovered that black holes have entropy, which became one of the greatest scientific revolutions of the second half of the 20th century. The o…
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Hawking in a thousand words
Jorge Pinochet
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…
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Hawking for beginners
Jorge Pinochet
Stephen Hawkings most important scientific contribution was his theoretical discovery that black holes aint so black, since they emit thermal radiation as if they were hot bodies w…