8 July, 2018
The voice of Stephen Hawking has been beamed into space with a message of peace and hope.
The British physicist, who died earlier this year, was an expert on black holes.
The physicist’s voice – set to music by Greek electronic music composer Vangelis, was beamed from the European Space Agency’s Cebreros Station in Spain.
The sound was beamed towards the nearest black hole, 1A 0620-00, which lives in a system with an ordinary orange dwarf star.
The wheelchair-bound scientist died in March aged 76 after a lifetime spent probing the origins of the universe. He suffered from motor neurone disease which forced him to use an electronic voice synthesiser.