SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT: UK engraves a 'Black Hole' on a 50p coin to honour Stephen Hawking and it looks out of the world

It's been a year since rewned and profoundly influential physicist Stephen Hawking passed away. To commemorated professor Stephen Hawking,  British Royal Mint has minted a new 50p coin, which references late physicist's pioneering work on black holes.

horary coin, which is available in three metal finishes, aims to celebrate life and "ground-breaking" achievements of Hawking, who passed away in 2018.

It features Hawking's name in capital letters above a rippling drawing of concentric circles, intended to represent a black hole. Designer Edwina Ellis, a British engraver and printmaker, wanted to "fit a big black hole on tiny coin".

Available in gold, silver, and a double thickness silver version called a piedfort, coin will t be circulated as currency.

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Also on coin is formula for arguably Hawking's most important scientific contribution. It references his discovery that black holes are t completely black, and inste emit riation, meaning y eventually evaporate and disappear.

"Termed Hawking Riation, this was an unexpected but highly influential development," said Royal Mint when introducing coin. "Hawking's discovery led physicists to unavoidable conclusion that information is lost as a black hole forms and subsequently evaporates," explained organisation.

"This is black hole information parox, one of greatest unsolved problems in oretical physics," it continued.

new 50p coin is latest in a series of scientist houred by UK coin, including Charles Darwin in 2009 and Isaac Newton in 2017.

"Hawking's popularisation of science and breakthrough work on blackholes stand as great achievements and significant contributions to humanity," said Royal Mint.

general public can purchase coins from  Royal Mint website.

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