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The discovery of the thermal radiation of black holes by Hawking was a complete surprise to most specialists, even though quite a few indications of a close relationship between black-hole physics and thermodynamics had crystallized before this discovery.
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Novikov, I.D., Frolov, V.P. (1989). Thermodynamics of Black Holes. In: Physics of Black Holes. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2651-1_11
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