{"id":204263,"date":"2025-01-22T01:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/two-black-holes-merged-into-the-new-one-and-got-a-high-speed-kick"},"modified":"2025-01-22T01:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:43:03","slug":"two-black-holes-merged-into-the-new-one-and-got-a-high-speed-kick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/two-black-holes-merged-into-the-new-one-and-got-a-high-speed-kick","title":{"rendered":"Two black holes merged into the new one, and got a high speed \u2018kick\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-black-holes-merged-into-the-new-one-and-got-a-high-speed-kick2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>High-Speed Cosmic Kick: A New Black Hole Discovery<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A newly formed black hole recently received a high-speed \u201ckick,\u201d thanks to gravitational waves, which propelled it at about 5 million kilometers per hour\u2014roughly 200 times the speed of light. This surprising discovery was made through data collected by gravitational wave observatories LIGO and Virgo. These observatories detected spacetime ripples produced by the coalescence of two black holes on January 29, 2020, revealing the large recoil effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-Speed Cosmic Kick: A New Black Hole Discovery A newly formed black hole recently received a high-speed \u201ckick,\u201d thanks to gravitational waves, which propelled it at about 5 million kilometers per hour\u2014roughly 200 times the speed of light. This surprising discovery was made through data collected by gravitational wave observatories LIGO and Virgo. These observatories [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204263","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}