The Incredibly Complex Life Of Stephen Hawking

Quantum Gravity, Quantum Mechanics, And Hawking Radiation

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By 1973, Hawking had begun to shift his focus into the study of quantum gravity and quantum mechanics. His work became influenced after a trip to Moscow to visit Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich and Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky, whose work showed that black holes emit particles.

He came to the conclusion that black holes emit radiation, which is now known as Hawking radiation. This discovery became considered as a breakthrough in theoretical physics. After his discovery of Hawking Radiation, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1974 and was the youngest scientists to become a Fellow.