{"id":112315,"date":"2020-09-02T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/heaviest-black-hole-merger-yet-is-a-first-for-discoveries"},"modified":"2020-09-02T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T16:22:38","slug":"heaviest-black-hole-merger-yet-is-a-first-for-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/heaviest-black-hole-merger-yet-is-a-first-for-discoveries","title":{"rendered":"Heaviest black hole merger yet is a first for discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heaviest-black-hole-merger-yet-is-a-first-for-discoveries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGravitational waves from what could be the most massive black hole merger yet has been detected by researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its discovery is also raising questions about how massive black holes are formed.<\/p>\n<p>When scientists made the first direct detection of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger in February 2016, not only did they prove Einstein right, they also discovered another curious quirk; the audibl\u2026 See More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The detection of the heaviest black hole merger to date is also the first clear detection of an \u201d intermediate-mass\u201d black hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGravitational waves from what could be the most massive black hole merger yet has been detected by researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its discovery is also raising questions about how massive black holes are formed. When scientists made the first direct detection of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112315","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}