{"id":218452,"date":"2025-07-22T08:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ligo-detects-black-hole-smashup-so-extreme-its-bending-einsteins-rules"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:21:04","slug":"ligo-detects-black-hole-smashup-so-extreme-its-bending-einsteins-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ligo-detects-black-hole-smashup-so-extreme-its-bending-einsteins-rules","title":{"rendered":"LIGO Detects Black Hole Smashup So Extreme It\u2019s Bending Einstein\u2019s Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ligo-detects-black-hole-smashup-so-extreme-its-bending-einsteins-rules.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes\u2014each over 100 times the mass of the Sun\u2014into a single, spinning cosmic titan. The final result? A black hole more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes\u2014each over 100 times the mass of the Sun\u2014into a single, spinning cosmic titan. The final result? A black hole more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218452","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=218452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}