Click above to listen to part 2 of Hawkingravity, featuring Janna Levin, physicist and astronomer at Barnard College of Columbia University, and the author of “Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space,” describing Hawking radiation, and how dying black holes will eventually be the last thing left in the universe.

Hawkingravity:
Part 1: Leonard Mlodinow / Working with Hawking
Part 2: Janna Levin / Hawking Radiation
Part 3: Camuccio & Rattray / LIGO Discoveries
Part 4: Raphael Bousso / Theory of Everything

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