“We face a number of threats to our survival, from nuclear war, catastrophic global warming, and genetically engineered viruses. The number is likely to increase in the future, with the development of new technologies and new ways things can go wrong.”
Professor Stephen William Hawking was a world-renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, widely regarded as one of the most brilliant scientists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
His groundbreaking research on the origin, evolution, and large-scale structure of the universe, ranging from the Big Bang to black holes, profoundly transformed modern cosmology. Over the course of several decades, he published more than 470 technical papers that significantly advanced our understanding of black hole physics, the early universe, and the fundamental nature of space, time, and gravity. He wrote or co-wrote more than 15 popular science books in nontechnical language, making complex concepts of modern physics accessible to readers without formal scientific training.
Professor Hawking accomplished all this while dealing with a debilitating health condition. At the young age of 21, while pursuing his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with a rare neurodegenerative disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which caused him to steadily lose control of his muscles. Professor Hawking lived with the disease for more than 50 years, far beyond initial medical expectations. He became a global symbol of perseverance, courage, and the enduring power of the human mind.
Professor Hawking said: If one is disabled, one should concentrate on the things one can do, and not regret the things one can’t do.
For 30 years, Dr. Hawking held Cambridge’s prestigious Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics, a chair once occupied by Sir Isaac Newton. He founded the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC), serving as its Director of Research until 2014, and subsequently as the Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and received more than 20 awards and honors, including the Royal Society’s Copley Medal in 2006, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009, the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2013, and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2015. In 2002, following a UK-wide vote, the BBC included him on its list of the 100 Greatest Britons.
Professor Hawking’s physical limitations never constrained his intellectual reach. “My disabilities have not been a significant handicap in my field, which is theoretical physics,” He once said. “Although my body is very limited, my mind is free to explore the universe, to go back to the beginning of time and into black holes. There are no limits to the human spirit.”
He described his visual geometric approach to research and studying as follows: What I do is visualize two-dimensional sections, remembering they are part of a four-dimensional whole. This geometric visualization I used in proving singularity theorems and my work on black holes, including black-hole radiation. My disability makes it difficult to write down complicated equations, so I prefer problems with a geometric interpretation.
“Hawking is best known for his discovery on black holes. He proved that black holes don’t just suck all the matter, they also emit radiation, which can be detected by special instruments; he called it the Hawking Radiation. Hawking proved that even the mighty black holes are not invincible. Black holes slowly lose their mass in the form of Hawking Radiation. If a black hole doesn’t get a continuous supply of matter for a long period of time, it will shrink in size and eventually cease to exist.”
Professor Hawking often explained how one could escape a black hole with characteristic wit. In his paper titled “Information Loss in Black Holes,” he wrote:
“If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our universe, but in a mangled form which contains the information about what you were like, but in a state where it can not be easily recognized. It is like burning an encyclopedia. Information is not lost, if one keeps the smoke and the ashes. But it is difficult to read.”
The mystery of black holes has long been a subject of fascination among astronomers, astrophysicists, and space observers.
“Out in space, there are places where gravity’s influence is so intense that not even light can escape. These are known as black holes, objects with extreme gravity caused by extreme density, that have an extreme influence on everything that gets too close.”
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In November 2025, World Is One News reported the activity of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy.
“In the silent depths of the cosmos, something unimaginable has awakened. An ancient monster, invisible yet all-powerful, has just released a cosmic scream brighter than 10 trillion suns. Astronomers are calling it the most violent light show ever recorded in the universe.
It began as a faint flicker on telescopes. A pinprick of light deep in a galaxy 11 billion light-years away. For days, scientists thought it was an error, a sensor glitch, or a dying star’s last gasp. But then the light grew brighter, hotter, wilder. Soon, the cosmos itself seemed to pulse with energy. What they were witnessing wasn’t a supernova. It was a black hole feeding, devouring an unlucky star that wandered too close. In a process known as tidal disruption, the star was ripped apart atom by atom. Its remains spiraling into the black hole’s event horizon, the point of no return.”
An entire star being devoured by a black hole. Can this terrifying event happen not just in a distant galaxy, but to Earth? Within Earth’s backyard, Gaia BH1 is the closest black hole, discovered in 2022; Gaia BH3, the second closest, was discovered in 2024 and is 33 times more massive than our Sun. Should people on Earth be worried about black holes?
“Anything that gets too close is doomed – planets, stars, even whole solar systems. And don’t think this is some faraway phenomenon. Black holes are on the loose right here in our own cosmic neighborhood.”
“We now know there are wandering nomads throughout the Milky Way galaxy, vagabonds throughout the galaxy where black holes can come up right behind you and perhaps gobble you up, and they won’t even burp. If one ever comes close, watch out!”
“If a black hole approached Earth, all that gravity would rip asteroids from their orbits and hurl them toward our planet. The Earth’s surface would become an inferno. It would be the beginning of the end.”
Our Most Beloved Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan) revealed the secret of black holes in a 2021 conference with our Supreme Master Television team members.
“The black hole is hell. (Yes.) And whoever makes trouble, even a big star or big planet nearby, it will swallow it up if that planet doesn’t have enough counterpower, like enough merit, enough virtues, (Yes, Master.) to counter the force of this monster that keeps eating everything possible nearby.
You can see some of the videos where the black hole eats a whole star. (Yes, Master.) And it looks like a noodle. It shreds it into a noodle and sucks it in. The force is so strong that it sucks the whole planet or that whole big star inside. (Wow. Yes.) Just like you are sucking some, I don’t know, whatever substance, maybe pudding or something. It doesn’t need the straw like we do. Big mouth. That black hole has a big mouth.
We have more than one black hole. That’s the problem. (Yes.) (Wow.) Everywhere, standing by to suck in anything that has similar energy to the black hole. When the beings inside a star or inside a planet have been doing so many things that are not very morally noble and just, then the energy of that star or that planet will grow more and more similar to the black hole energy. And then, like will attract like, and then the black hole will claim it as its own. (Wow!)
And nowadays, scientists are amazing. They can even capture some of these moments when the black hole is sucking in a whole star.
This is a very scary thing. No need to talk about karma or the Buddhist teaching, nothing. You can see it by scientific evidence and proof. It’s just that the scientists probably don’t know that the black hole is a force of darkness, of hell. And probably they have not discovered that whatever the planet or the star that has similar energy to the black hole, they will be eaten up, shredded, and swallowed up by the black hole. That, probably, the scientists cannot prove by physical means. (Yes, Master.) Only the developed spiritual person can know all this, (Right.) because nobody explained this before to anybody. (Yes, Master.) You are the first ones to hear this, in the whole universe. (Thank You, Master. Wow!)”
Is there a way out of a black hole? During a lecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden in 2015, Professor Hawking made one of his most famous quotes:
“Black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. Things can get out of a black hole both on the outside and possibly to another universe. So, if you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There’s a way out.”
Professor Hawking’s theory was confirmed by our Most Wise Supreme Master Ching Hai when She was asked in 2021 to comment on the “golden stripes” or rings in the magnetic fields of the M87 black hole.
“The golden stripes (around a black hole) are the new stuff. (Oh.) Well, not quite new, but they were only discovered recently. That is a stripe, actually it is more extra reinforced. This is the rescue road for the souls from hell. (Wow.) It’s a rescue arena. A special magnetic field to rescue, and to help those in hell. (Wow.)”
In an inner vision, one of our Association members (all vegans) saw our Most Powerful Supreme Master Ching Hai’s bright presence around the black hole that could have engulfed Earth.
“One night, during my communion with You, I saw a glimpse of the black hole in the Universe. A halo surrounded the black hole. On that halo, I saw Your bright and beautiful apparition. As always, I feel very elated whenever You appear inside. However, I also feel very sad because of all the immense suffering that Master willingly shoulders due to our karma and the karma of the whole world in order to stop the black hole from swallowing our planet, Earth. […]”
In his later years, Professor Hawking stepped out of his academic work and became a prominent public voice on global challenges, warning of existential risks to humanity.
“We face a number of threats to our survival, from nuclear war, catastrophic global warming, and genetically engineered viruses. The number is likely to increase in the future, with the development of new technologies and new ways things can go wrong.”
According to the Federation of American Scientists’ 2025 Status of World Nuclear Forces, nine countries in the world possess nuclear weapons. They are Russia, the USA, China, France, the UK, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. Some of these countries are dangerously at war or in conflict with others. The threat of nuclear war that Professor Hawking warned about is still imminent.
Just recently, in March 2026, our Most Beloved Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke on the subject of world peace that’s on everyone’s mind and advised us on how to achieve it permanently.
“So, in order to have peace, people have to live as peaceful beings. Then they will generate peaceful energy. If each one, each family, generates peaceful energy together, then this world will just automatically become peaceful, and we will have world peace.
The peace doesn’t come by just praying, but by knowing the cause of it, like we should be vegan to stay away from killing karma. If you’re killing directly or indirectly, you will have the karma of killing directly or indirectly, sooner or later. To contribute to peace, we ourselves must have a peaceful life.”
Is humanity ready to deal with the other existential threats Professor Hawking predicted? We’ll discuss this question in subsequent episodes.
