This is a citation of an outside article. Gravyday is not responsible for its content. Original URL below. Lab-grown black hole analog behaves just like Stephen Hawking said it would In 1974, Stephen Hawking theorized that the universe's darkest gravitational behemoths, black holes, were not the pitch-black star swallowers astronomers imagined, but they spontaneously emitted light — a phenomenon now dubbed Hawking radiation. (more)