World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. BBC reports that the British scientist died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday. Hawking’s discoveries: – With the Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose, he showed that if there was a Big Bang, it must have started from an infinitely small point – a singularity – Black holes radiate energy known as Hawking radiation, while gradually losing mass. This is due to quantum effects near the edge of the black hole, a region called the event horizon – He predicted the existence of mini-black
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