For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...
A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions ...
Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace.
Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...
On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has once again made a significant announcement to the scientific community—successfully ...
Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot ...
LIGO observatory near Richland confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also has proven one of Hawking’s theorems.
Stephen Hawking, one of the most famous physicists in history ... connecting abstract math with observable reality. These discoveries inspire further research in fundamental physics, astronomy, and ...
Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever-clearer signals, researchers are testing Einstein’s relativity and Hawking ...
International researchers who studied the merging of two black holes say their new observations match theories developed by Stephen Hawking and NZ scientist Roy Kerr over half a century ago. Professor ...