Open AccessVery short GRBs may be Hawking radiation source
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2010.51604_17.x
Subject(s) - hawking , physics , hawking radiation , radiation , astrophysics , astronomy , gravitational wave , optics , universe
A particular group of gamma‐ray bursts, those of very short duration, have characteristics that suggest they may be the signature of an evaporating primordial black hole – the Hawking radiation proposed by Stephen Hawking in 1974.