{"id":124423,"date":"2021-06-29T13:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-new-type-of-cataclysmic-event-in-the-cosmos-astrophysicists-detect-first-black-hole-neutron-star-mergers"},"modified":"2021-06-29T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:22:41","slug":"a-new-type-of-cataclysmic-event-in-the-cosmos-astrophysicists-detect-first-black-hole-neutron-star-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-new-type-of-cataclysmic-event-in-the-cosmos-astrophysicists-detect-first-black-hole-neutron-star-mergers","title":{"rendered":"A New Type of Cataclysmic Event in the Cosmos: Astrophysicists Detect First Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-type-of-cataclysmic-event-in-the-cosmos-astrophysicists-detect-first-black-hole-neutron-star-mergers.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mix pair is \u201celusive missing piece of the family picture of compact object mergers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A long time ago, in two galaxies about 900 million light-years away, two black holes each gobbled up their neutron star companions, triggering gravitational waves that finally hit Earth in January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Discovered by an international team of astrophysicists including Northwestern University researchers, two events \u2014 detected just 10 days apart \u2014 mark the first-ever detection of a black hole merging with a neutron star. The findings will enable researchers to draw the first conclusions about the origins of these rare binary systems and how often they merge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mix pair is \u201celusive missing piece of the family picture of compact object mergers.\u201d A long time ago, in two galaxies about 900 million light-years away, two black holes each gobbled up their neutron star companions, triggering gravitational waves that finally hit Earth in January 2020. Discovered by an international team of astrophysicists including Northwestern [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124423","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}