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The influence of Ronald Coase's 1960 paper, "The Problem of Social Cost," cannot be overstated. Originally published in the Law School's own Journal of Law and Economics, of which Coase was editor ...

Abstract: A variation of Landau’s eigenvalue theorem describing the phase transition of the eigenvalues of a time-frequency limiting, self adjoint operator is presented. The total number of degrees of ...

Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, ...

Stephen Hawking’s 50-year-old theorem on how black holes merge together has been successfully tested thanks to huge advances in gravitational wave astronomy, which helped astronomers catch the waves ...

An eon ago, when only microbes dwelled on Earth, a pair of black holes some 1.3 billion light-years beyond the solar system spiraled toward each other until they crashed. The two became one big black ...

Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect gravitational waves. The songs of the cosmos, now that we can finally hear them, might ...