Growing black hole (IMAGE)
Caption
Illustration of a black hole that is growing in response to an influx of energy. New research from Penn State suggests a new measure for a black hole’s entropy that extends Stephen Hawking’s laws of black hole mechanics to such out-of-equilibrium, dynamic black holes that form, merge and evaporate.
Credit
Jonathan Shu and Daniel Paraizo, Penn State
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