Etymology

Hawking energy

Today it means: A measure of the bending of ingoing and outgoing rays of light that are orthogonal to a 2-sphere surrounding a region of space whose mass is to be defined. Full definition →

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Named after English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

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