Black Hole Collision Supports Hawking's Landmark Theory

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An exceptionally strong collision between two black holes was detected by the Observatory of Gravitational Waves LIGO, allowing physicists to test a theorem postulated by Stephen Hawking in 1971 Illustration of two black holes merging and sending gravitational waves through the cosmos Stephen Hawking's 50-year-old theorem on the [...]

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In 1971, the late British physicist Stephen Hawking formulated a prediction of disconcerting simplicity but profound implications. The total surface area of a black hole can never decrease. It can only increase or remain stable. Thus, if two black holes merge, the resulting new black hole will have a surface area greater than the sum of the two original surfaces. This rule is now known as Hawking's area theorem.