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How physicists will remember Stephen Hawking

Researchers are still pondering puzzles posed by the cosmologist

Stephen Hawking

COSMOLOGICAL STAR  During a career that spanned more than half a century, Stephen Hawking deduced new properties of mysterious chasms in spacetime.

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By Emily Conover

- More than 2 years ago

Stephen Hawking, a black hole whisperer who divined the secrets of the universe’s most inscrutable objects, left a legacy of cosmological puzzles sparked by his work, and inspired a generation of scientists who grew up reading his books.