{"id":221731,"date":"2025-09-11T04:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/hawking-and-kerr-black-hole-theories-confirmed-by-gravitational-wave"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:39:04","slug":"hawking-and-kerr-black-hole-theories-confirmed-by-gravitational-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/hawking-and-kerr-black-hole-theories-confirmed-by-gravitational-wave","title":{"rendered":"Hawking and Kerr black hole theories confirmed by gravitational wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hawking-and-kerr-black-hole-theories-confirmed-by-gravitational-wave.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have confirmed two long-standing theories relating to black holes\u2014thanks to the detection of the most clearly recorded gravitational wave signal to date.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years after detecting the first gravitational wave, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has (10 Sep) announced the detection of GW250114\u2014a ripple in spacetime which offers unprecedented insights into the nature of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/black+holes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">black holes<\/a> and the fundamental laws of physics.<\/p>\n<p>The study confirms Professor Stephen Hawking\u2019s 1971 prediction that when black holes collide, the total event horizon area of the resulting black hole is bigger than the sum of individual black holes\u2014it cannot shrink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have confirmed two long-standing theories relating to black holes\u2014thanks to the detection of the most clearly recorded gravitational wave signal to date. Ten years after detecting the first gravitational wave, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has (10 Sep) announced the detection of GW250114\u2014a ripple in spacetime which offers unprecedented insights into the nature of black holes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}