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Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose jointly wrote an essay on ‘singularity theorem’ in 1968, which was the runner-up in the Gravity Research Foundation competition, and was published in 1970.
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In 1970, Stephen Hawking theorised the second law of black hole dynamics, which suggested that horizon of a black hole can never get smaller.
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Stephen Hawking worked on the ‘no hair’ theorem of black holes, which states that black holes can be characterised by three numbers – their mass, angular momentum and charge. The hair in question is other information that vanishes when it falls into the black hole.
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Stephen Hawking proposed laws of black hole mechanics with James M. Bardeen and Brandon Carter comparing the analogy with thermodynamics.
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Stephen Hawking’s first book ‘The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time’ with George Ellis was an attempt to describe the foundation of space itself and its nature of infinite expansion, using differential geometry to examine the consequences of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
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