The black hole created in the merger that launched the signal GW190412 was seen racing away from the site of its birth at a ...

A new study published this week has confirmed a prediction about black holes that Stephen Hawking made more than 50 years ago ...

New research published this week confirms Stephen Hawking's 1971 theory that the surface area of black holes never shrinks, ...

On January 14, 2025, a gravitational wave dubbed GW250114 reached Earth. Like its predecessor, GW150914, it came from a pair ...

A recently discovered black hole merger is proving correct theoretical predictions made by Albert Einstein and Stephen ...

A decade after the pair of observatories first detected gravitational waves, researchers are drawing up ambitious plans for ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

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

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes. Now the science is precise enough to test one of Stephen Hawking's key ideas.

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, ...

Researchers using LIGO have confirmed that black holes get bigger when they merge, offering strong support for Stephen Hawking's theory.

New observations of a merger of two black holes confirm decades-old predictions by Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Roy ...