Extraordinary physicist Stephen Hawking, a man synonymous with the mysteries of the cosmos, died at home in Cambridge this morning at the age of 76. pops.ci/p5Xyci
Even if you weren’t a physicist, you knew Stephen Hawking. You knew he was a genius whose mind grappled with cosmological conundrums as massive as black holes and the existence of the Universe. pops.ci/p5Xyci
His children said in a statement: "He once said, 'It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.' We will miss him forever."