{"id":223877,"date":"2025-10-24T04:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-finally-hear-black-holes-ring-confirming-hawkings-famous-prediction"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:16:56","slug":"scientists-finally-hear-black-holes-ring-confirming-hawkings-famous-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-finally-hear-black-holes-ring-confirming-hawkings-famous-prediction","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Finally Hear Black Holes Ring, Confirming Hawking\u2019s Famous Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sGxiV6VHdFk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet \u2014 and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking\u2019s most famous predictions.<\/p>\n<p>Using the upgraded LIGO detectors, researchers observed two black holes colliding over a billion light-years away, producing space-time ripples so precise they could \u201chear\u201d the black holes ring like cosmic bells.<\/p>\n<p>A new window on the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet \u2014 and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking\u2019s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO detectors, researchers observed two black holes colliding over a billion light-years away, producing space-time ripples so precise they could \u201chear\u201d the black holes ring [\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-223877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223877","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=223877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}