{"id":125139,"date":"2021-07-19T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T21:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/gravitational-wave-observatories-detect-rare-mergers-of-black-holes-with-neutron-stars-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2021-07-19T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T21:23:13","slug":"gravitational-wave-observatories-detect-rare-mergers-of-black-holes-with-neutron-stars-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/gravitational-wave-observatories-detect-rare-mergers-of-black-holes-with-neutron-stars-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational-Wave Observatories Detect Rare Mergers of Black Holes With Neutron Stars for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gravitational-wave-observatories-detect-rare-mergers-of-black-holes-with-neutron-stars-for-the-first-time.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salvatore Vitale describes how gravitational-wave signals suggest black holes completely devoured their companion neutron stars.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, an international team of scientists, including researchers at MIT, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/a-new-type-of-cataclysmic-event-in-the-cosmos-astrophysicists-detect-first-black-hole-neutron-star-mergers\/\">announced<\/a> the detection of a new kind of astrophysical system: a collision between a black hole and a neutron star \u2014 two of the densest, most exotic objects in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have detected signals of colliding black holes, and colliding neutron stars, but had not confirmed a merging of a black hole with a neutron star until now. In a study appearing today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the scientists report observing not just one, but two such rare events, each of which gave off gravitational waves that reverberated across a large swath of the universe before reaching Earth in January 2020, just 10 days apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvatore Vitale describes how gravitational-wave signals suggest black holes completely devoured their companion neutron stars. Recently, an international team of scientists, including researchers at MIT, announced the detection of a new kind of astrophysical system: a collision between a black hole and a neutron star \u2014 two of the densest, most exotic objects in the [\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-125139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125139","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=125139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}