Stephen Hawking Takes a Trip through a Black Hole

Rachel Billings 10/1/15

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Brumfield, Ben. "Stephen Hawking Takes a Trip through a Black Hole - CNN.com."

CNN. Cable News Network, 27 Aug. 2015. Web. 01 Oct. 2015. <http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/26/us/sweden-hawking-black-hole-paradox-solution/index.html>.

The scientific article Stephen Hawking Takes a Trip through a Black Hole” by Ben Brumfield is a very interesting and informative article. It discusses the most recent discovery made by Stephen Hawking, a well-known British scientist. Hawking unfortunately is a victim of Lou Gehrig's disease, but this does not stop him from making great discoveries. According to CNN, Hawking has been working on a theory concerning the properties of black holes. A black hole occurs when a star, or multiple stars, are destroyed and their atmospheres collapse into a giant, bottomless tunnel of darkness. Black holes have, in the words on the organizers whom Brumfield quotes, “their gravitational pull is infinitely powerful.” Evidence for this statement is the fact that even light can’t escape their pull. Despite Einstein’s theory that when something goes through a black hole, it is destroyed,  Hawking believes that when space matter passes through a black hole, it is transported to another. If this is the case, he also believes that whatever space matter enters the black hole will never be able to come back out.

I respect this theory by Stephen Hawking, partly because I respect him so much as a scientist. Last year, a film came out about Stephen Hawking called The Theory of Everything with Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking. The movie was amazing and it allowed me to enter into the world of Stephen Hawking. I also think that black holes are really cool. It’s like this giant tunnel of darkness that just sucks everything up like a vacuum, and that fact that it could possibly transport us to another universe is amazing!

I think the author of this article, Ben Brumfield, did a really nice job writing this article. He gave us some background on Stephen Hawking, what black tunnels are, and past theories of their fundamentals, which I thought was really helpful. I also liked how Brumfield divided the article into separate sections. This made it easier to read and it made the article more organized. If he could improve something, I think he could have gone into a little more detail about Hawking’s theory. Overall, though, Ben Brumfield’s article discussing Stephen Hawking’s new theory about black holes was a well-written, interesting story.