Black Hole Explosions? Offprint from: Nature, Vol. 248, No. 5443, 1 March 1974

by Stephen William Hawking

$35,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: Macmillan, 1974 . First edition, extremely rare offprint issue, and Hawking’s own file copy, of his most important article, predicting that black holes emit radiation, now known as ‘Hawking radiation’. This would cause relatively low mass black holes less than 1012 kg to ‘evaporate’ completely in a time less than the age of the universe. The discovery that black holes radiate was a

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