{"id":115332,"date":"2020-10-30T22:26:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T05:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/bumper-crop-of-black-holes-in-new-gravitational-wave-paper"},"modified":"2020-10-30T22:26:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T05:26:37","slug":"bumper-crop-of-black-holes-in-new-gravitational-wave-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/bumper-crop-of-black-holes-in-new-gravitational-wave-paper","title":{"rendered":"Bumper crop of black holes in new gravitational wave paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bumper-crop-of-black-holes-in-new-gravitational-wave-paper.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only a few years ago, scientists the world over celebrated as the first-ever gravitational waves were detected\u2014confirming a long-held scientific theory and opening up an entirely new field of research.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the international research team responsible for detecting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gravitational+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gravitational waves<\/a> has announced a further 39 gravitational wave events, bringing the total number of confirmed detections to 50.<\/p>\n<p>The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo Collaborations, which include researchers from the University of Portsmouth, have today published a series of papers that record events including the mergers of binary black holes, binary <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neutron\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neutron<\/a> stars and, possibly, neutron star-black holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a few years ago, scientists the world over celebrated as the first-ever gravitational waves were detected\u2014confirming a long-held scientific theory and opening up an entirely new field of research. Now, the international research team responsible for detecting gravitational waves has announced a further 39 gravitational wave events, bringing the total number of confirmed detections [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115332","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=115332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}