{"id":233446,"date":"2026-03-17T02:23:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-spot-a-black-hole-neutron-star-pair-breaking-the-rules-of-cosmic-orbits"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:23:27","slug":"scientists-spot-a-black-hole-neutron-star-pair-breaking-the-rules-of-cosmic-orbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-spot-a-black-hole-neutron-star-pair-breaking-the-rules-of-cosmic-orbits","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Spot a Black Hole-Neutron Star Pair Breaking the Rules of Cosmic Orbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-spot-a-black-hole-neutron-star-pair-breaking-the-rules-of-cosmic-orbits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly analyzed gravitational-wave event has revealed something unexpected about one of the Universe\u2019s most violent encounters. Scientists have found the first strong evidence that a black hole and a neutron star collided while moving along an oval shaped orbit instead of the nearly perfect circ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly analyzed gravitational-wave event has revealed something unexpected about one of the Universe\u2019s most violent encounters. Scientists have found the first strong evidence that a black hole and a neutron star collided while moving along an oval shaped orbit instead of the nearly perfect circ<\/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-233446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233446","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=233446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}