{"id":233161,"date":"2026-03-12T11:22:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-universe-is-humming-with-ripples-in-spacetime-scientists-just-doubled-our-catalog-of-black-hole-and-neutron-star-collisions"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:22:54","slug":"the-universe-is-humming-with-ripples-in-spacetime-scientists-just-doubled-our-catalog-of-black-hole-and-neutron-star-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-universe-is-humming-with-ripples-in-spacetime-scientists-just-doubled-our-catalog-of-black-hole-and-neutron-star-collisions","title":{"rendered":"The universe is humming with ripples in spacetime: Scientists just doubled our catalog of black hole and neutron star collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universe-is-humming-with-ripples-in-spacetime-scientists-just-doubled-our-catalog-of-black-hole-and-neutron-star-collisions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message from this catalog is: We are expanding into new parts of what we call \u2018parameter space\u2019 and a whole new variety of black holes,\u201d LVK member Daniel Williams, of the University of Glasgow in the U.K., said in the statement. \u201cWe are really pushing the edges, and are seeing things that are more massive, spinning faster, and are more astrophysically interesting and unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The catalog also demonstrates just how sensitive the LVK detectors have become. Some of the neutron star mergers occurred up to 1 billion light-years away, while some of the black hole mergers occurred up to 10 billion light-years away. These detections have allowed scientists to test the theory that first predicted the existence of both black holes and gravitational waves, Einstein\u2019s magnum opus theory of gravity, general relativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe message from this catalog is: We are expanding into new parts of what we call \u2018parameter space\u2019 and a whole new variety of black holes,\u201d LVK member Daniel Williams, of the University of Glasgow in the U.K., said in the statement. \u201cWe are really pushing the edges, and are seeing things that are more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233161","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}