Stephen Hawking's famous 'leaky' black hole theory gets much-needed update

There may be an easier way to describe how black holes "leak" energy than the theory Stephen Hawking proposed — and the newly suggested process is similar to how we describe a boiling pot of water. This simple (well, relatively simple) description could be used to model black holes in many situations such as during their formation, mergers with other black holes, eventual evaporation and even explosive death.In the 1970s, legendary theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking wrote a letter to th