{"id":118330,"date":"2021-01-11T17:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T01:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/galaxy-sized-observatory-sees-potential-hints-of-gravitational-waves"},"modified":"2021-01-11T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T01:22:49","slug":"galaxy-sized-observatory-sees-potential-hints-of-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/galaxy-sized-observatory-sees-potential-hints-of-gravitational-waves","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Galaxy-sized\u2019 observatory sees potential hints of gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/galaxy-sized-observatory-sees-potential-hints-of-gravitational-waves3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have used a \u201cgalaxy-sized\u201d space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the powerful ripples that course through the universe and warp the fabric of space and time itself.<\/p>\n<p>The new findings, which appeared recently in <i>The <i>Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/i><\/i>, hail from a U.S. and Canadian project called the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav).<\/p>\n<p>For over 13 years, NANOGrav researchers have pored over the light streaming from dozens of pulsars spread throughout the Milky Way Galaxy to try to detect a \u201cgravitational wave background.\u201d That\u2019s what scientists call the steady flux of gravitational radiation that, according to theory, washes over Earth on a constant basis. The team hasn\u2019t yet pinpointed that target, but it\u2019s getting closer than ever before, said Joseph Simon, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and lead author of the new paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have used a \u201cgalaxy-sized\u201d space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the powerful ripples that course through the universe and warp the fabric of space and time itself. The new findings, which appeared recently in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, hail from a U.S. and Canadian project called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118330","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}