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T. Tomura

3 articles · 30 co-authors · latest: 2026-03-26

Black hole merger confirms Hawking's area law

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.
arXiv:2509.08054 · 2025-09-09

Space Beacons: LST-1 Telescope Begins Tracking

For two years, the LST-1 prototype tracked the flickering of distant space beacons — blazars. At their centers, supermassive black holes act like giant spotlights, shooting out narrow beams of gamma rays. The telescope didn't catch the rays themselves, but their atmospheric footprints — faint blue f
arXiv:2510.03702 · 2025-10-04

Tuning Into the Hum of Spinning Stars

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
arXiv:2603.25938 · 2026-03-26