Lightsail propulsion could enable interstellar travel at speeds never before imagined | The Breakthrough Starshot Initiative — backed by theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and scientist Yuri Milner — aims to send miniature spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system.
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Nature
Direct radiation pressure measurements for lightsail membranes
Nature Photonics - Simultaneous measurements of the optical force and power exerted by a collimated laser beam on a 50-nm-thick silicon nitride lightsail membrane suspended by compliant...
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Stephen Hawking’s 50-year-old theorem on how black holes merge together has been proven thanks to huge advances in gravitational wave astronomy 🌌🔭, which helped astronomers catch the waves caused by an unusually powerful collision as they passed Earth 🌍 at the speed of light.
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New Scientist
Gravitational waves finally prove Stephen Hawking's black hole theorem
An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, enabling physicists to test a theorem postulated by Stephen Hawking in 1971
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