Black Hole Finder

Sad to hear Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking has passed away.  Professor Hawking was 76 years old and was perhaps the most widely known scientist of his era.  His best seller, A Brief History of Time, helped to make the vastness of the universe understandable to a generation of curious readers.  Despite the enormous challenge of merely staying alive in a paralyzed condition, Professor Hawking continued to lecture and teach at Cambridge University in Great Britain.  I will miss his occasional appearances on the tv sitcom, The Big Bang Theory - an aptly named program, since it was Stephen Hawking (and Roger Penrose) who theorized how the earth may have come into being by means of a singular event.