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

Hawking's second law of black hole mechanics, also known as Hawking's area theorem, states that the area of the event horizon ...

New research published this week confirms Stephen Hawking's 1971 theory that the surface area of black holes never shrinks, even during a collision. An international group of scientists, including ...

Researchers using LIGO have confirmed that black holes get bigger when they merge, offering strong support for Stephen Hawking's theory.