New study proves Hawking was right, black holes only get bigger
Naturalists have confirmed, by analyzing gravity waves, a theory developed by Stephen Hawking in the 1970's, that black holes cannot shrink into space over time.
In a study published Monday, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Cornell University shared their findings on a research project that analyzed the space constraints formed by two black holes that penetrated and eventually merged into a large black hole.
The studied ripples were the first gravitational waves ever identified, discovered by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in 2015.
Separating gravitational data into time periods before and after black holes were combined, the researchers calculated the upper areas of black holes in both periods.(ads2)
Scientists found that the surface area of the new black hole was actually larger than the first two holes connected. These findings confirm the predictions made by a well-known scientist, Stephen Hawking, in the 1970's, in which he said that black holes cannot go down in space as the physics law indicates, that entropy or disorder cannot be reduced over time.
Hawking's law states that the surface area of the black hole will not rise by itself, but when objects enter it, it gains in abundance and similarly its area increases.
While the incoming material can make a black hole rotate, reducing the surface area, the size increase due to the extra bulk will remain larger than the size lost in spinning.
"It's the first time we've been able to put a number on this," said Maximiliano Isi of MIT.
The foundation was reborn in Albert Einstein's common sense of relativity that explains physics and the relationships behind black holes and gravitational waves.
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