Professor Stephen Hawking , the celebrated theoretical physicist regarded as one of the most intelligent people the world has ever known, has died at the age of 76. He died peacefully at his home in ...

Lucy Hawking, daughter of Professor Stephen Hawking, talks to Laura Fine, daughter of Dennis Klatt, about her father's pioneering work on modern speech synthesis.

Professor Stephen Hawking’s Simpsons figurine sold for more than triple its expected sale price at Christie’s Auction House. The late theoretical physicist’s figurine was expected to sell for between ...

On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...

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Black holes may be the fiercest objects in the universe, yet we still know very little about them. It has only been a decade since we confirmed their existence by detecting gravitational waves: ...