{"id":108836,"date":"2020-06-18T15:09:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-reveal-a-lost-eight-billion-light-years-of-universe-evolution"},"modified":"2020-06-18T15:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:09:20","slug":"scientists-reveal-a-lost-eight-billion-light-years-of-universe-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-reveal-a-lost-eight-billion-light-years-of-universe-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal a lost eight billion light years of universe evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reveal-a-lost-eight-billion-light-years-of-universe-evolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Advanced LIGO-VIRGO gravitational-wave detector network recorded data from 35 merging black holes and neutron stars. A great result\u2014but what did they miss? According to Dr. Rory Smith from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery at Monash University in Australia\u2014it\u2019s likely there are another 2 million gravitational wave events from merging black holes, \u201ca pair of merging black holes every 200 seconds and a pair of merging neutron stars every 15 seconds\u201d that scientists are not picking up.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Smith and his colleagues, also at Monash University, have developed a method to detect the presence of these weak or \u201cbackground\u201d events that to date have gone unnoticed, without having to detect each one individually. The method\u2014which is currently being test driven by the LIGO community\u2014\u201d means that we may be able to look more than 8 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+years\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light years<\/a> further than we are currently observing,\u201d Dr. Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will give us a snapshot of what the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/early+universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">early universe<\/a> looked like while providing insights into the evolution of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Advanced LIGO-VIRGO gravitational-wave detector network recorded data from 35 merging black holes and neutron stars. A great result\u2014but what did they miss? According to Dr. Rory Smith from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery at Monash University in Australia\u2014it\u2019s likely there are another 2 million gravitational wave events from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108836","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=108836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}