God abhors a naked singularity. - Stephen Hawking

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God abhors a naked singularity.

Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time · September 1, 1998 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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About Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS (8 January 1942 - 14 March 2018) was a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.

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Native Name: Stephen William Hawking

Alternative Names: Hawking • S. W. Hawking • stephen • S. Hawking

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In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.