Hawking's second law of black hole mechanics, also known as Hawking's area theorem, states that the area of the event horizon of a black hole must always increase. In other words, black holes can't ...

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an ...

Celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black holes, LIGO has confirmed ...

Scientists have confirmed two long-standing theories relating to black holes—thanks to the detection of the most clearly ...

Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect ...

East Hanover, NJ. April 1, 2021. A team of New Jersey researchers has shown that changes in perceptual certainty and response bias, two central metrics of signal detection theory (SDT), correlate with ...

Dual-process theory, which holds that recognition decisions can be based on recollection or familiarity, has long seemed incompatible with signal detection theory, which holds that recognition ...

Using signal detection theory, Kessler Foundation researchers furthered their understanding of the mechanisms of cognitive fatigue in a recent neuroimaging study comparing participants with multiple ...