# Hawking energy

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A measure of the bending of ingoing and outgoing rays of light that are orthogonal to a 2-sphere surrounding a region of space whose mass is to be defined.

## Etymology
Named after English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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