As a cosmologist, Hawking studies the basic laws that govern the universe. One of his theories is that mini black holes were formed following the big bang. These mini black holes contain one billion tons of mass but occupy less than the space of an atom. Hawking’s work has inspired others to investigate the properties of black holes.

Hawking became a professor at Cambridge in 1977. Two years later he was appointed Lucasian professor of…

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