fromArs Technica2 days agoScienceNew black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theoremImproved LIGO sensitivity for GW250114 enabled precise ringdown measurement, reinforcing the no-hair theorem and Hawking-area (entropy) relations with implications for quantum gravity.
fromwww.npr.org2 days agoUS newsAfter 10 years of black hole science, Stephen Hawking proven rightBlack-hole merger observations confirm Hawking's 1971 area theorem: the total event-horizon surface area does not decrease during black-hole mergers.