Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant advancements in our understanding of black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity. Plus, ...

This artwork imagines the ultimate front-row seat for GW250114, a powerful collision between two black holes observed in gravitational waves by the US National Science Foundation LIGO. It depicts the ...

Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds of our time, often faced big questions about God and what happens after we die.

When Stephen Hawking died in March, we couldn't stop reading and watching tributes. His public roles as researcher, speaker, writer, and advocate over the years have endeared this man to generations ...

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. He has come to be thought of as the greatest mind in physics since Albert Einstein. With similar interests -- discovering the ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to scientists Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their discoveries about black holes. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Stephen Hawking, revealing his favorite food, drink, and equation, showing the personal side ...

Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event horizon — yet new research suggests it may secretly leak information. That leakage would appear in subtle signatures in gravitational waves, and now ...

Physicist Stephen Hawking said he is convinced that humans are not the only intelligent life form in the universe. In a newly released 25-minute film from Curiosity Stream — an online video on demand ...