{"id":164538,"date":"2023-05-25T11:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/ligo-starts-its-fourth-round-of-searching-for-gravitational-waves-and-black-holes"},"modified":"2023-05-25T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:24:41","slug":"ligo-starts-its-fourth-round-of-searching-for-gravitational-waves-and-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/ligo-starts-its-fourth-round-of-searching-for-gravitational-waves-and-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"LIGO starts its fourth round of searching for gravitational waves and black holes"},"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\/Z2TJGk50vFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After three years of upgrading and waiting, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic, th<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ligo.caltech.edu\/\">e Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory<\/a> has officially resumed its hunt for the signatures of crashing black holes and neutron stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur LIGO teams have worked through hardship during the past two-plus years to be ready for this moment, and we are indeed ready,\u201d Caltech physicist Albert Lazzarini, the deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ligo.caltech.edu\/news\/ligo20230524\">said in a news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lazzarini said the engineering tests leading up to today\u2019s official start of Observing Run 4, or O4, have already revealed a number of candidate events that have been shared with the astronomical community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three years of upgrading and waiting, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory has officially resumed its hunt for the signatures of crashing black holes and neutron stars. \u201cOur LIGO teams have worked through hardship during the past two-plus years to be ready for this moment, and we are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33,38,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cosmology","category-engineering","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164538","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=164538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}