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

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

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

Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the ...

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 ...

Black holes are a key prediction of general relativity, our leading theory for describing gravity. Astrophysical black holes ...

Ten years after scientists observed gravitational waves for the first time, confirming Albert Einstein’s then century-old ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.

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, ...