thermal radiation

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By using thermal radiation, the system projects a carefully tailored heat pattern onto the mirror.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

A micrometer-thick silicon polymer was added to enhance the structure's cooling power by reflecting thermal radiation through the atmospheric window and into outer space.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

In the 1970s Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit thermal radiation, in the form of particles, because of quantum mechanical effects near the event horizon.

From Scientific American • Nov. 30, 2022

All hot bodies emit light, and a universal principle known as Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation states that reciprocal materials in equilibrium must absorb and emit thermal radiation at the same rate.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2022

I knew if I got close enough to him, the intense thermal radiation he was emitting would scorch me.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram