{"id":241924,"date":"2026-07-31T04:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-does-the-universe-set-black-holes-on-a-collision-course"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:15:06","slug":"how-does-the-universe-set-black-holes-on-a-collision-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-does-the-universe-set-black-holes-on-a-collision-course","title":{"rendered":"How does the universe set black holes on a collision course?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-does-the-universe-set-black-holes-on-a-collision-course2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black holes can form spiraling pairs in three different ways, the gravitational waves from hundreds of collisions suggest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black holes can form spiraling pairs in three different ways, the gravitational waves from hundreds of collisions suggest<\/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-241924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241924","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=241924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}