Black Hole Mergers Confirm Key Predictions of Hawking and Einstein
TL;DR
Scientists using LIGO detected a black hole merger that confirms Stephen Hawking's 50-year-old theory that the event horizon of a black hole can never decrease in size, providing strong evidence for black hole thermodynamics and quantum effects near the horizon.
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