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    The Day Feynman Worked Out Black-Hole Radiation on My Blackboard

    by Nautilus Editors Apr 11, 2019 3 minutes

    After a few minutes, Richard Feynman had worked out the process of spontaneous emission, which is what Stephen Hawking became famous for a year later.Wikicommons

    The amazing image of a black hole unveiled Wednesday, along with data from the Event Horizon Telescope, may not substantiate Stephen Hawking’s famous theory that radiation, an example of spontaneous emission at the quantum level, is emitted by a black hole. But the news did remind us of a Nautilus

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