thermal radiation
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When heated, the base layers accumulate thermal radiation, which can be thought of as a bath of photons.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024
In 1974 Stephen Hawking theorized that black holes are not black but slowly emit thermal radiation.
From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2022
They also neglected to include Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation in their thermal models of the asteroids.
From Science Magazine • May 23, 2016
Yet according to classical concepts, no such equilibrium is possible, since the black hole would absorb any thermal radiation that fell on it, but by definition would not be able to emit anything in return.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2016
I knew if I got close enough to him, the intense thermal radiation he was emitting would scorch me.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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