The rate at which a body radiates (or absorbs) thermal radiation depends upon the nature of the surface as well.
If it failed to replenish itself it would eventually evaporate completely, like a puddle of water on a hot summer's day.Unfortunately for physicists, Dr Hawking also predicted that the typical temperature at which a black hole radiates should be about a billionth of that of the background radiation left over from the Big Bang itself.
The sun radiates down on me and my dog Rosie, who is lying carefully so as to not to crush the tubing that connects me to an electronic concentrator, providing oxygen 24 hours a day, via a nasal canula, should I need it.
In Belgium, a country now irrigated by a constant stream of footballing prodigies, it is virtually accepted that he will one day inspire his country: he may play in a different position to Vincent Kompany but he radiates the same maturity and authority that the Manchester City and Belgium captain showed for Anderlecht at a similar age.
But instead of being apologetic, she delivers these jokes from a position of unassailable strength; the confidence she radiates means all the fat jokes seem to be at our expense rather than hers.
Italy's most successful politician since the second world war, and its longest-serving modern prime minister, no longer radiates the dazzling aura that blinded his compatriots to his shortcomings and persuaded them to elect him as their leader no less than three times.
Mega-Catch, despite being a 38cm-high black plastic box, radiates heat and carbon dioxide much as a human body would.
She radiates continental European chic, clinking with bold silver jewellery that offers a sort of travelogue of her peripatetic working life.
The lean, silver-haired Mr Stoiber radiates competence, authority, control.Angela Merkel, the Christian Democrats' leader, appears in contrast to be almost a country bumpkin, woefully lacking the qualities needed to govern the country in troubled times.
This one also radiates with a regular rhythm.In this section Trashing the brain Food for thought Eyes on the prize A cut less cruel Survivor ReprintsBy looking for changes in this pulsing of the star, Dr Silvotti deduced that a planet was orbiting it.
He charged that Mr Arafat radiates "encouragement, instructions and winks" to the terrorists to perpetrate their crimes and that it was pointless expecting the more moderate Mr Abbas to take the kind of action that was needed.
