Stephen Hawking's long-contested black hole theory finally confirmed — as scientists 'hear' 2 event horizons merge into one
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Scientists Observe Black Holes Getting Bigger as They Merge, Confirming Hawking’s Theory
Two merging black holes. Credit: Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 In a breakthrough, researchers have observed two black holes merging, providing strong evidence that black holes grow during cosmic events and confirming Stephen Hawking’s decades-old theory. The observation supports Hawking’s 1971 prediction that the surface area of a black hole’s event horizon, the boundary beyond which nothing can escape, can nev…
By detecting gravitational waves, they have proven the enormous surface area increase caused by the collision of two black holes.
The LIGO research center in the US has observed for the first time British physicist Stephen Hawking's theory of merging black holes. In the 1970s, Hawking developed the theory that merging black holes in our universe can only expand and not contract. The fact that Hawking's theory has now been tested and confirmed for the first time does not conclusively prove it.
Stephen Hawking's long-contested black hole theory finally confirmed — as scientists 'hear' 2 event horizons merge into one
Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a decades-old Stephen Hawking theory.
Gravitational Waves Confirm Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Theory
Sure! Here’s the rewritten content while keeping the HTML tags intact: Illustration of two black holes merging and emitting gravitational waves throughout the universe Maggie Chiang from the Simons Foundation Stephen Hawking’s theorem, established over 50 years ago, has aided astronomers in detecting waves produced by extraordinarily powerful collisions as they traverse Earth at light [...] The post Gravitational Waves Confirm Stephen Hawking’s …
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