Gravitational wave detector confirms theories of Einstein and Hawking: 'This is the clearest view yet of the nature of black holes'
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"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout."

“In 1971, Hawking, along with physicist Jacob Bekenstein, predicted that when black holes merge, the total area of the resultant daughter black hole’s event horizon would be larger than the area of the progenitor black holes’ event horizons combined…”