“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…”

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    21 days ago

    Too late to explore the seas but right on time to witness a whole new way to look at the universe.

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      20 days ago

      I liked the part where the event’s gravity arrived a second or two before the light did. I can’t quite explain it, but I like that. “Better questions we can’t answer than answers we can’t question …” as Feynman said.