{"id":217796,"date":"2025-07-13T21:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/magnets-could-become-the-next-generation-of-gravitational-wave-detectors"},"modified":"2025-07-13T21:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:09:25","slug":"magnets-could-become-the-next-generation-of-gravitational-wave-detectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/magnets-could-become-the-next-generation-of-gravitational-wave-detectors","title":{"rendered":"Magnets Could Become the Next Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnets-could-become-the-next-generation-of-gravitational-wave-detectors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Einstein\u2019s predicted ripples in spacetime pass through magnetic fields, they cause the current carrying wires to dance at the gravitational wave frequency, creating potentially detectable electrical signals. Researchers have discovered that the same powerful magnets used to hunt for dark matter could double as gravitational wave detectors. This means experiments already searching for the universe\u2019s most elusive particles could simultaneously capture collisions between black holes and neutron stars, getting two of physics\u2019 most ambitious experiments for the price of one, while potentially opening entirely new windows into the universe\u2019s most violent events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Einstein\u2019s predicted ripples in spacetime pass through magnetic fields, they cause the current carrying wires to dance at the gravitational wave frequency, creating potentially detectable electrical signals. Researchers have discovered that the same powerful magnets used to hunt for dark matter could double as gravitational wave detectors. This means experiments already searching for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217796","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=217796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}