<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><div><div><div class="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 2em 2em; position: relative; overflow: hidden;"><section id="ember786" class="ember-view collapsible opened" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="dnd-atom-wrapper type-video context-full_width" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; padding: 0px;"><section id="ember784" class="ember-view collapsible opened" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">An artist’s illustration of a supermassive black hole ever discovered.</font></div><cite class="fig-credit" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">Credit: Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science</font></cite></figcaption></figure><div class="article-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">There's a lot we still don't know about black holes, but these light-gobbling behemoths would be even more mysterious if <a href="https://www.space.com/15923-stephen-hawking.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;" class="">Stephen Hawking</a> hadn't plumbed their inky depths.</font></p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">For starters, the famed cosmologist, <a href="https://www.space.com/39972-stephen-hawking-dies-at-age-76.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;" class="">who died yesterday</a> (March 14) at the age of 76, helped give more solid mathematical backing to the concept of black holes, the existence of which was predicted by Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity.</font></p><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="4" class="">"Hawking actually proved some rigorous mathematical theorems about Einstein's equations for gravity that showed that, under quite general circumstances, there were places where the equations broke down — what are called singularities," said Tom Banks, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey. 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