An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...

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

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an ...

Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a ...

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

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

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 ...

A decade ago, the universe whispered, and humanity, for the first time, had the tools to listen. On September 14, 2015, the ...

Researchers celebrate 10th anniversary of gravitational wave discovery, announce verification of a Hawking theorem.

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