{"id":237114,"date":"2026-05-14T02:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/statistical-technique-could-uncover-secrets-of-ringing-black-holes"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:31:08","slug":"statistical-technique-could-uncover-secrets-of-ringing-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/statistical-technique-could-uncover-secrets-of-ringing-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"Statistical technique could uncover secrets of \u2018ringing\u2019 black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/statistical-technique-could-uncover-secrets-of-ringing-black-holes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a technique to analyze how black holes \u201cring\u201d when they collide and merge: one of the universe\u2019s most dramatic events. When black holes merge, the collision produces a new, larger black hole that \u201crings\u201d like a plucked guitar string or a bell while it settles into its final, stable shape. But instead of sound waves, the new black hole rings with gravitational waves: ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein.<\/p>\n<p>The new black hole vibrates at a specific set of frequencies, depending on its mass and spin, which help scientists learn about the object formed in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>These vibrations, known as quasinormal modes, are the fingerprint of a black hole. Detecting them is central to testing Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity in the most extreme gravitational environments in the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a technique to analyze how black holes \u201cring\u201d when they collide and merge: one of the universe\u2019s most dramatic events. When black holes merge, the collision produces a new, larger black hole that \u201crings\u201d like a plucked guitar string or a bell while it settles into its final, stable shape. But instead [\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-237114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237114","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=237114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}