{"id":130262,"date":"2021-11-08T18:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/scientists-detect-a-tsunami-of-gravitational-waves"},"modified":"2021-11-08T18:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:23:32","slug":"scientists-detect-a-tsunami-of-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/scientists-detect-a-tsunami-of-gravitational-waves","title":{"rendered":"Scientists detect a \u2018tsunami\u2019 of gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zETgav4Jzgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of international scientists, including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), have unveiled the largest number of gravitational waves ever detected.<\/p>\n<p>The discoveries will help solve some of the most complex mysteries of the Universe, including the building blocks of matter and the workings of space and time.<\/p>\n<p>The global team\u2019s study, published on <i>ArXiv<\/i>, made 35 new detections of gravitational waves caused by pairs of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/black+holes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">black holes<\/a> merging or neutron stars and black holes smashing together, using the LIGO and Virgo observatories between November 2019 and March 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of international scientists, including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), have unveiled the largest number of gravitational waves ever detected. The discoveries will help solve some of the most complex mysteries of the Universe, including the building blocks of matter and the workings of space and time. The global team\u2019s study, published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130262","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=130262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}