Israeli-made ‘black hole’ could win Hawking a Nobel

Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking

British physicist Stephen Hawking could finally win a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking theory on black holes thanks to new research out of Israel’s Technion university. In 1974, Hawking hypothesized that black holes are slowly evaporating, challenging the conventional understanding that nothing could escape from the void of a black hole. The theory, known as Hawking…