{"id":215134,"date":"2025-05-31T05:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/from-infinite-past-to-future-simulation-tracks-complete-journey-of-gravitational-wave-through-black-hole-spacetime"},"modified":"2025-05-31T05:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:12:49","slug":"from-infinite-past-to-future-simulation-tracks-complete-journey-of-gravitational-wave-through-black-hole-spacetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/from-infinite-past-to-future-simulation-tracks-complete-journey-of-gravitational-wave-through-black-hole-spacetime","title":{"rendered":"From infinite past to future: Simulation tracks complete journey of gravitational wave through black hole spacetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-infinite-past-to-future-simulation-tracks-complete-journey-of-gravitational-wave-through-black-hole-spacetime3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.161401\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a> study, researchers have successfully followed a gravitational wave\u2019s complete journey from the infinite past to the infinite future as it encounters a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>Reported by scientists from the University of Otago and the University of Canterbury, the study represents the first time anyone has captured the full cause-and-effect relationship of gravitational wave scattering in a single simulation.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers are tackling the scattering problem in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gravitational+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gravitational physics<\/a>. In other words, they want to understand what happens to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gravitational+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gravitational waves<\/a> when they encounter massive objects (like black holes) and scatter off them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers have successfully followed a gravitational wave\u2019s complete journey from the infinite past to the infinite future as it encounters a black hole. Reported by scientists from the University of Otago and the University of Canterbury, the study represents the first time anyone has captured the full cause-and-effect [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215134","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}