{"id":102082,"date":"2020-02-08T07:44:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T15:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/we-may-finally-have-a-way-to-detect-hawking-radiation-leaking-from-black-holes"},"modified":"2020-02-08T07:44:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T15:44:58","slug":"we-may-finally-have-a-way-to-detect-hawking-radiation-leaking-from-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/we-may-finally-have-a-way-to-detect-hawking-radiation-leaking-from-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"We May Finally Have a Way to Detect Hawking Radiation Leaking From Black Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qPKj0YnKANw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>O.o!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-s-official-gravitational-waves-have-given-us-colliding-neutron-stars\">epic collision<\/a> between two neutron stars in 2017 really is the science gift that keeps on giving. As they merged, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gravitational-waves\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"gravitational waves\">gravitational waves<\/a> rippled out across the Universe; now reverberations from that event could confirm a decades-old hypothesis about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"black holes\">black holes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers poring over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gravitational-waves\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"gravitational wave\">gravitational wave<\/a> data believe they have found evidence of echoes \u2014 something that would only occur in the presence of the \u2018quantum fuzz\u2019 produced by Hawking radiation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to Einstein\u2019s theory of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/general-relativity\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"general relativity\">general relativity<\/a>, nothing can escape from the gravity of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"black hole\">black hole<\/a> once it has passed a point of no return, known as the event horizon,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/news\/news\/gravitational-wave-echoes-may-confirm-stephen-hawkings\">said astronomer and physicist Niayesh Afshordi<\/a> of the University of Waterloo in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o! The epic collision between two neutron stars in 2017 really is the science gift that keeps on giving. As they merged, gravitational waves rippled out across the Universe; now reverberations from that event could confirm a decades-old hypothesis about black holes. Astronomers poring over the gravitational wave data believe they have found evidence of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}