{"id":124809,"date":"2021-07-11T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T00:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/primordial-black-holes-could-confirm-a-theory-about-the-origins-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2021-07-11T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T00:22:17","slug":"primordial-black-holes-could-confirm-a-theory-about-the-origins-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/primordial-black-holes-could-confirm-a-theory-about-the-origins-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPrimordial black holes\u201d could confirm a theory about the origins of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/primordial-black-holes-could-confirm-a-theory-about-the-origins-of-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The size of a tennis ball. The mass of the Earth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But that could change soon.<\/p>\n<p>Current gravitational wave observatories are sensitive to the mergers of <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/black-hole-breaking-the-black-holes\">stellar-mass black holes<\/a>. We\u2019ve observed a few mergers involving neutron stars, but most have been between black holes on the order of tens of solar masses.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t yet observe the gravitational waves of supermassive black holes in other galaxies, nor can we observe those of planet-sized worlds. Proposed detectors such as eLISA will allow us to observe the former, but it will take a novel new idea to detect the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The size of a tennis ball. The mass of the Earth. But that could change soon. Current gravitational wave observatories are sensitive to the mergers of stellar-mass black holes. We\u2019ve observed a few mergers involving neutron stars, but most have been between black holes on the order of tens of solar masses. We can\u2019t yet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124809","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}