An auction of 22 personal possessions of Stephen Hawking fetched more than $ 2.3m .
in June 2018 , it was announced that Hawking 's words , set to music by Greek composer Vangelis , are to be beamed into space from a European space agency satellite dish in Spain with the aim of reaching the nearest black hole , 1A 0620-00.On 8 November , 2018 , an auction of 22 personal possessions of Stephen Hawking , including his doctoral thesis ( `` Properties of Expanding Universes '' , Ph.D. thesis , Cambridge University , 1965 ) and wheelchair , took place , and fetched about £1.8m ( more than $ 2.3m ) .
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