Back in 1971, Stephen Hawking proposed the area theorem having to do with black holes. Hawking's area theorem predicted that the total area of the black hole's event horizon should never decrease.

In a groundbreaking discovery, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration detected the loudest gravitational wave ever observed, confirming Stephen Hawking’s area theorem on black holes. The event, GW250114, ...

There are certain rules that even the most extreme objects in the universe must obey. A central law for black holes predicts that the area of their event horizons — the boundary beyond which nothing ...

More than 50 years ago, acclaimed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking theorized that the area of a black hole could never decrease. On Sept. 10, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, a global network ...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Collaboration has used the sharpest to date gravitational wave signal from two merging black holes to precisely test Hawking’s ...

Researchers from MIT and other institutions have confirmed Stephen Hawking's black hole area theorem 50 years after the late scientist proposed it. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

Cosmic testbed A computer simulation of the black-hole collision that produced the first gravitational wave signal to be detected, GW150914. (Courtesy: Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project/LIGO ...