Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, ...

Stephen Hawking’s 50-year-old theorem on how black holes merge together has been successfully tested thanks to huge advances in gravitational wave astronomy, which helped astronomers catch the waves ...

An eon ago, when only microbes dwelled on Earth, a pair of black holes some 1.3 billion light-years beyond the solar system spiraled toward each other until they crashed. The two became one big black ...

Bridgeport City Councilman Alfredo Castillo has been arrested again and charged with mishandling absentee ballots during a city election. This is the third time that Castillo, who is running for a ...

How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple concept behind Bayes' rule, an approach to calculating probabilities, first ...

This story has been updated. Jacqueline Oliver says her daughter, a student at Bridgeport Public Schools who has autism, was allowed on two separate days last winter to beat her head against a hard ...

The purchase of such an extraordinary stud marks a historic acquisition, and social media buzzed rapidly when the news broke. This purchase highlights the increasing national focus on Western ...

BRIDGEPORT, CT (WFSB) - Eleven people and several pets were displaced following a house fire on Thursday in Bridgeport. The fire department responded to 600 William Street around 10:40 a.m. for the ...

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BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (WABC) -- A pastor from Bridgeport, Connecticut, described the frightening struggle between him and an armed carjacker who attempted to steal his Audi parked outside a ...