{"id":26899,"date":"2016-06-15T10:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T17:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/focus-ligo-bags-another-black-hole-merger"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:56:11","slug":"focus-ligo-bags-another-black-hole-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/focus-ligo-bags-another-black-hole-merger","title":{"rendered":"Focus: LIGO Bags Another Black Hole Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/focus-ligo-bags-another-black-hole-merger.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LIGO detects gravitational waves for the second time, from another pair of merging black holes. This time they were smaller and provided a longer-duration signal of their final moments. Two events within four months suggests that such detections will soon be giving astronomers a wealth of new information about previously invisible events in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v9\/68\">http:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v9\/68<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIGO detects gravitational waves for the second time, from another pair of merging black holes. This time they were smaller and provided a longer-duration signal of their final moments. Two events within four months suggests that such detections will soon be giving astronomers a wealth of new information about previously invisible events in the Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67206,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26899\/revisions\/67206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}