Gravitational Wave Detector Confirms Theories of Einstein and Hawking
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A new gravitational wave detection confirms theories of Einstein and Hawking, but the future of LIGO research is uncertain due to budget concerns.
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>As gravity is related to mass, the size of an event horizon, also known as the Schwarzschild radius — after Karl Schwarzschild, the first physicist to solve the equations of general relativity and inadvertently predict the existence of black holes — also depends on the mass of a black hole.
It also leads with this: >and potentially revealing a path toward a theory of quantum gravity.
But unless I missed it they never really came back around to explain their points
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/kw5g-d732