{"id":221840,"date":"2025-09-13T20:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/gravitational-wave-analysis-confirms-theory-of-merging-black-holes"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:11:28","slug":"gravitational-wave-analysis-confirms-theory-of-merging-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/gravitational-wave-analysis-confirms-theory-of-merging-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational wave analysis confirms theory of merging black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gravitational-wave-analysis-confirms-theory-of-merging-black-holes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ten years after scientists first detected gravitational waves emerging from two colliding black holes, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, a research team that includes Columbia astronomy professor Maximiliano Isi, has recorded a signal from a nearly identical black hole collision.<\/p>\n<p>Improvements in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/detection+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">detection technology<\/a> allowed the researchers to see the black holes almost four times as clearly as they could a decade ago, and to confirm two important predictions: That merging black holes only ever grow or remain stable in size\u2014as the late physicist Stephen Hawking predicted\u2014and that, when disturbed, they ring like a bell, as predicted by Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis unprecedentedly clear signal of the black hole merger known as GW250114 puts to the test some of our most important conjectures about black holes and gravitational waves,\u201d Isi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years after scientists first detected gravitational waves emerging from two colliding black holes, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, a research team that includes Columbia astronomy professor Maximiliano Isi, has recorded a signal from a nearly identical black hole collision. Improvements in the detection technology allowed the researchers to see the black holes almost four times as [\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-221840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221840","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=221840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}