Hawking radiation

radiation with a blackbody spectrum radiated from an event horizon
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Hawking radiation

Summary

Hawking radiation is a black-body radiation[1]. It draws 5,422 Wikipedia views per month (black_body_radiation category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hawking radiation's instance of is recorded as black-body radiation[3].
  • Hawking radiation's instance of is recorded as hypothesis[4].
  • Stephen Hawking is named after Hawking radiation[5].
  • Hawking radiation's has cause is recorded as black hole[6].
  • Hawking radiation's proved by is recorded as Stephen Hawking[7].
  • Hawking radiation's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/hawking-radiation[8].
  • Hawking radiation's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/tags/hawking-radiation[9].
  • Hawking radiation's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[10].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include black-body radiation[3] and hypothesis[4].

Origins

Stephen Hawking is named after Hawking radiation[5].

Why It Matters

Hawking radiation draws 5,422 Wikipedia views per month (black_body_radiation category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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