Now Hawking can get a Noble Prize posthumously.
‘Black hole’ = Black hole “analog”
Sound rather than light.
From way down in the article:
“As for Hawking Radiation, the recent experiment provides the strongest evidence for its existence ever documented, but still falls short of absolute proof as no one has ever been able to observe the phenomenon in an actual black hole.”
Hawking postulated that matter that entered into a black hole was destroyed. Physicist (Former plumber from the Bronx) Leonard Susskind for decades argued that matter could neither be created or destroyed.
I believe Hawking radiation was an attempt by Hawking to modify his theory to correct this. So if this radiation is confirmed…that is interesting as it was perceived as a bandaid.
It’s a safe bet he won’t win a Noble Prize. He might have had a crack at the Nobel Prize, howsomever.
He had a wonderful mind...that said, he refused to give credit to the Orgin of all that math and science and the mixture of both.
The proof is weak with this one
I doubt they created a black hole in the laboratory. One of the problems with making your own black hole is how to turn it off, so it doesn’t continue eating up everything in the room, the city, and the world when you throw it into the trash.