{"id":243297,"date":"2026-08-28T01:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/dark-stars-may-have-left-a-gravitational-wave-signal-we-can-detect-today"},"modified":"2026-08-28T01:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:27:20","slug":"dark-stars-may-have-left-a-gravitational-wave-signal-we-can-detect-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/dark-stars-may-have-left-a-gravitational-wave-signal-we-can-detect-today","title":{"rendered":"Dark Stars May Have Left a Gravitational-Wave Signal We Can Detect Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-stars-may-have-left-a-gravitational-wave-signal-we-can-detect-today2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new study suggests that pulsar timing arrays could help reveal how the Universe\u2019s first supermassive black holes formed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A faint background of extremely low-frequency gravitational waves, detected by monitoring networks of pulsars, may preserve clues from events that began more than 13 billion years ago. Among them could be the processes that produced some of the Universe\u2019s earliest supermassive black holes.<\/p>\n<p>Sohan Ghodla and Cosmin Ilie of Colgate University explored that possibility in a study published as a Letter in <em><i>Physical Review D<\/i><\/em>. Their goal was to determine whether supermassive black holes that originated in the early Universe could eventually account for a substantial share of the gravitational wave background now detected by Pulsar Timing Arrays, or PTAs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that pulsar timing arrays could help reveal how the Universe\u2019s first supermassive black holes formed. A faint background of extremely low-frequency gravitational waves, detected by monitoring networks of pulsars, may preserve clues from events that began more than 13 billion years ago. Among them could be the processes that produced some [\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-243297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243297","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=243297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}