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Hawking’s discovery of thermal radiation from black holes was a complete surprise to most specialists, even though quite a few indications of a close relationship between black hole physics and thermodynamics had emerged before this discovery.
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Frolov, V.P., Novikov, I.D. (1998). Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Black Holes. In: Black Hole Physics. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 96. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5139-9_12
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