In 1971, Stephen Hawking theorized that a black hole's event horizon can never shrink. Recently, LIGO confirmed this by ...

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

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

After fifty years of debate, Dr Geraint Pratten from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham ...

The second is a bit more nuanced. According to Hawking's area theorem, a black hole's area should only be able to increase ...

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

What happens when black holes collide? In 1971, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking put out a theory that the surface area of ...

The latest observations from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), analyzed by researchers at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics, have confirmed ...

Nearly a decade has passed since an international team of scientists, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, ...

The predicted explosion could be strong evidence of a theorised but never observed kind of black hole, called a "primordial ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have made a bold prediction: there is a more than 90 percent probability that our telescopes could witness a black hole explode within the next 10 ...