Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant advancements in our understanding of black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity. Plus, ...

One of Stephen Hawking's most famous theorems has been proven right, using ripples in space-time caused by the merging of two distant black holes. The black hole area theorem, which Hawking derived in ...

Robert P. Crease is professor in and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York. His latest book, with Peter Bond, is The Leak. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s ...

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