{"id":17424,"date":"2015-09-17T14:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T21:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/we-finally-know-what-is-sending-these-weird-black-hole-light-flashes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:39:45","slug":"we-finally-know-what-is-sending-these-weird-black-hole-light-flashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/we-finally-know-what-is-sending-these-weird-black-hole-light-flashes","title":{"rendered":"We Finally Know What Is Sending These Weird Black Hole Light Flashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-finally-know-what-is-sending-these-weird-black-hole-light-flashes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When scientists spotted this pair of black holes, it was a rare chance to observe black holes in the process of colliding. Soon, however, as they looked closer, scientists were consumed with a brand new question: Uh, hey, what\u2019s that blinking light?<\/p>\n<p>The light isn\u2019t coming from the pair of colliding black holes (named PG 1302-102) 3.5 billion light years away from us, it\u2019s coming from the turbulence around them. What that doesn\u2019t explain, though, is why the light \u201cflashes\u201d rhythmically\u2014regularly brightening, then dimming. So researchers Daniel D\u2019Orazio, Zoltan Haiman, and David Schiminovich at Columbia University built a simulation of the pair and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-feature\/jpl\/intricate-dance-of-black-holes\" target=\"_blank\">have now come up with an explanation for just what we\u2019re seeing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the orbit of the black holes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/researchers-finally-know-what-is-sending-these-weird-bl-1731467424\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When scientists spotted this pair of black holes, it was a rare chance to observe black holes in the process of colliding. Soon, however, as they looked closer, scientists were consumed with a brand new question: Uh, hey, what\u2019s that blinking light? The light isn\u2019t coming from the pair of colliding black holes (named PG [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17424","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64183,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17424\/revisions\/64183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}