Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a ...

Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.

Ten years after scientists observed gravitational waves for the first time, confirming Albert Einstein’s then century-old ...

Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a ...

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an ...

Hawking's second law of black hole mechanics, also known as Hawking's area theorem, states that the area of the event horizon ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

Hawking’s theory for the first time in history. The observations by gravitational waves reveal that black holes do in fact ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

The formation of black holes is typically closely related to the collapse of massive stars, which are among the heaviest entities in the universe. However, in 1970, Hawking proposed another ...

The theory says two black holes that merge will have the same or larger surface area than what the pair started out with.

A breakthrough in black hole physics has confirmed Stephen Hawking’s 1972 “area law,” which states that the event horizon of ...