Anuradha Gupta

A clear signal from the merger of two black holes, each about 33 solar masses, confirmed Hawking's theorem: the final horizon area turned out larger than the sum of the initial ones. This strengthens the link between black hole area and entropy.

If neutron stars had tiny bumps, they would constantly hum with gravitational waves. Using LIGO, scientists searched for that hum from 34 pulsars, the largest search of its kind. No signals were found, which pushes the theoretical limits even lower. The Crab pulsar, for instance, turns less than 0.0

Gravitational waves from mergers of black holes and neutron stars are not just ripples of curved spacetime but precise 'standard sirens' for measuring distances. A new study demonstrates that the Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope detectors will be able to determine curvature Ω_k with an error o