{"id":170131,"date":"2023-08-21T03:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/the-universes-humming-riddle-groundbreaking-research-uncovers-clues-to-its-source"},"modified":"2023-08-21T03:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:22:22","slug":"the-universes-humming-riddle-groundbreaking-research-uncovers-clues-to-its-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/the-universes-humming-riddle-groundbreaking-research-uncovers-clues-to-its-source","title":{"rendered":"The Universe\u2019s Humming Riddle: Groundbreaking Research Uncovers Clues to Its Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universes-humming-riddle-groundbreaking-research-uncovers-clues-to-its-source2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe is not static or silent, as is commonly believed. It moves, expands and\u2026 <strong>vibrates<\/strong>. And this is where <strong>gravitational waves<\/strong> play an important role: tiny ripples in the fabric of space and time that occur when massive objects accelerate or collide.<\/p>\n<p>Gravitational waves are generally<strong> very difficult to detect <\/strong>because they are usually very short and weak, and get lost in the background noise of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, until now only some of them have been captured with very sensitive instruments such as the <strong>Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO),<\/strong> which measures the distortions caused by the waves in two laser light beams separated by kilometers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is not static or silent, as is commonly believed. It moves, expands and\u2026 vibrates. And this is where gravitational waves play an important role: tiny ripples in the fabric of space and time that occur when massive objects accelerate or collide. Gravitational waves are generally very difficult to detect because they are usually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170131","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}