{"id":234370,"date":"2026-03-31T23:25:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/ligo-may-have-detected-the-first-primordial-black-hole-scientists-say"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:25:43","slug":"ligo-may-have-detected-the-first-primordial-black-hole-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/ligo-may-have-detected-the-first-primordial-black-hole-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"LIGO May Have Detected The First Primordial Black Hole, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ligo-may-have-detected-the-first-primordial-black-hole-scientists-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Primordial black holes (PBHs) are particularly special types of black hole, thought to have been formed from dense pockets of subatomic matter within a second after the Big Bang \u2013 and a new study reports on what could be the first direct observation of one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primordial black holes (PBHs) are particularly special types of black hole, thought to have been formed from dense pockets of subatomic matter within a second after the Big Bang \u2013 and a new study reports on what could be the first direct observation of one.<\/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-234370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234370","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=234370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}