{"id":131445,"date":"2021-11-29T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/did-astronomers-see-the-light-from-two-black-holes-colliding-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:23:34","slug":"did-astronomers-see-the-light-from-two-black-holes-colliding-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/did-astronomers-see-the-light-from-two-black-holes-colliding-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Did astronomers see the light from two black holes colliding for the first time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/did-astronomers-see-the-light-from-two-black-holes-colliding-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers may have seen the light from two black holes smashing into one another for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>Black holes are completely dark and therefore invisible to light-detecting telescopes. So far, the only way astronomers have been able to \u201cobserve\u201d black holes colliding is by detecting the resulting gravitational waves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers may have seen the light from two black holes smashing into one another for the first time ever. Black holes are completely dark and therefore invisible to light-detecting telescopes. So far, the only way astronomers have been able to \u201cobserve\u201d black holes colliding is by detecting the resulting gravitational waves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131445","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}