Teaching overview
Learning points
- Stephen Hawking was a famous physicist who studied black holes.
- Black holes are areas of space with a very high mass, meaning they have a very strong gravitational pull.
- Professor Hawking discovered Hawking Radiation, small particles that are able to escape the gravity surrounding black holes.
Curriculum keywords
- Gravity
- Space
- Black Holes
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Last month, we remembered physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, who passed away in March 2018. Here, we look at some of his work.
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- Why do you think "A Brief History of Time" was so successful?
- How can we tell that the Sun has a stronger gravitational pull than the Earth?
- What do you think would happen to something traveling towards a black hole?
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