{"id":130350,"date":"2021-11-10T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/gravitational-waves-will-soon-lift-veil-on-black-holes-says-portuguese-astrophysicist"},"modified":"2021-11-10T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T21:43:54","slug":"gravitational-waves-will-soon-lift-veil-on-black-holes-says-portuguese-astrophysicist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/gravitational-waves-will-soon-lift-veil-on-black-holes-says-portuguese-astrophysicist","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational Waves Will Soon Lift Veil On Black Holes, Says Portuguese Astrophysicist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gravitational-waves-will-soon-lift-veil-on-black-holes-says-portuguese-astrophysicist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of the cosmos\u2019 four fundamental forces, gravity is the one that grasps us even before we exit the womb. From our first few minutes of life until we lose the fight to lift our heads from death\u2019s pillow, this weakest of nature\u2019s fundamental forces continues to elude researchers.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few years, however, gravitational wave astronomy has made great strides in detecting gravitational radiation rippling through spacetime at the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein first predicted that any accelerating mass should emit gravitational radiation in the form of waves. Gravitational waves were first indirectly detected almost 20 years ago. But it was only recently, in 2,015 that the ground-based LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) detected waves from two merging stellar mass black holes over a billion light years distant in the general direction of the Southern Hemisphere\u2019s Magellanic Clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the cosmos\u2019 four fundamental forces, gravity is the one that grasps us even before we exit the womb. From our first few minutes of life until we lose the fight to lift our heads from death\u2019s pillow, this weakest of nature\u2019s fundamental forces continues to elude researchers. In the last few years, however, gravitational [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130350","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}