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.

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When black holes merge, the resulting black hole exhibits an increase in both its total mass and the diameter of its event horizon. The "diameter" of a black hole refers to its event horizon, which ...

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 ...

For the first time, we've observed a 50-year-old theorem from Stephen Hawking in the natural world. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology, ...

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 ...

Physicists have used gravitational waves to observationally confirm Hawking's black hole theorem. There are certain rules that even the most extreme objects in the universe must obey. A central law ...