{"id":234387,"date":"2026-03-31T23:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/distinguishing-neutron-star-mergers-from-black-hole-mergers"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:30:31","slug":"distinguishing-neutron-star-mergers-from-black-hole-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/distinguishing-neutron-star-mergers-from-black-hole-mergers","title":{"rendered":"Distinguishing Neutron-Star Mergers from Black Hole Mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/distinguishing-neutron-star-mergers-from-black-hole-mergers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weak tidal forces alter the gravitational-wave signal from merging neutron stars by just enough that the telltale signature could be detected in large sensitive surveys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weak tidal forces alter the gravitational-wave signal from merging neutron stars by just enough that the telltale signature could be detected in large sensitive surveys.<\/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-234387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234387","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=234387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}