Evidence for Hawking's Area Theroam of Black Holes

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Evidence for Hawking's Area Theroam of Black Holes

Hawking is a name that will forever be linked with black holes. You think black holes, you think Stephen Hawking.

Because in a time when many in science were still dismissing the idea of such a weird thing as an object collapsed under gravity so dense that light couldn’t escape, that seemed so counterintuitive to everything else we knew in physics,

Hawking was bringing together the pieces to reveal how black holes could exist in nature, and how they would still obey the laws of physics despite their oddity.

One of those laws is called the Hawking area theorem, and this month a research paper from the LIGO collaboration came out studying the gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes that provided the strongest evidence yet we have in support of Hawking’s black hole theorems…

Dr. Becky

astrophysicist

Evidence for Hawking's Area Theroam of Black Holes

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