A whisper from a lab-manufactured black hole may confirm the existence of radiation predicted by University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking four decades ago. If validated by further research, the finding would offer evidence that particles blinking in and out of existence can rob black holes of mass.
“It’s amazing, groundbreaking work,” says Daniele Faccio, a physicist at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The work “demonstrates something that everyone thought was impossible.”
