Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, died peacefully at home early Wednesday in Cambridge, England. Showed light can leave black holesHawking first earned prominence for his theoretical work on black holes. Instead, he said he believed objects could be spit out of black holes in a mangled form. According to John Boslough, author of Stephen Hawking's Universe, Hawking became deeply depressed. In 2010, Prime Minister Stephen Harper sits with Hawking before making a funding announcement at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ont.

Source: CBC News March 14, 2018 03:59 UTC