Stephen Hawking's Voice To Be Beamed Towards Black Hole

Legendary scientists Stephen Hawking passed away in March of 2018 at the age of 76. Word has now surfaced that Hawking's family plans to do something that the scientist would have certainly found to be very cool. The family plans to beam a recording of his voice toward a black hole.

Some of the most important work that Hawking performed during his career was related to the structure of black holes. Stephen Hawking's daughter, Lucy Hawking, has confirmed that the recording of Hawking's voice will be set to an original piece of music by a Greek composer known as Vangelis and beamed towards the black hole.

The black hole in question is in a binary system 1A 0620-00 that lies over 3,000 light years away from the Earth. This is the nearest black hole to the Earth. According to Lucy Hawking, the recording is a "beautiful and symbolic gesture that creates a link between our father's presence on this planet, his wish to go into space and his explorations of the universe in his mind."

Hawking's ashes will be interred at Westminster Abby along with the remains of other legendary scientists Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton. A memorial service and the interment will happen today, June 15 according to Telegraph.

It's very cool that the voice of a scientist will someday roughly 3,000 years from now get slurped into the maw of a black hole. There is no exact indication when the recording with Hawking's voice will be beamed towards the black hole.

SOURCE: LiveScience