Stephen Hawking’s legacy honoured with new 50p coin

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It’s hard to imagine how you’d get something as massive as a black hole onto something as small as a 50p ($0.65) coin. But the Royal Mint just did exactly that. 

In honour of the renowned British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who passed away in 2018, the Royal Mint is issuing a special coin featuring a black hole design and the equation S=kAc^3/4hG, the so-called Bekenstein–Hawking equation.

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The Royal Mint shared a video of the coin on Twitter, saying that the coin is in commemoration of Hawking’s “outstanding contribution to science.” Read more…

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