{"id":26925,"date":"2016-06-15T18:47:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T01:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/it-wasnt-a-fluke-scientists-see-black-holes-collide-again"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:56:03","slug":"it-wasnt-a-fluke-scientists-see-black-holes-collide-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/it-wasnt-a-fluke-scientists-see-black-holes-collide-again","title":{"rendered":"It Wasn\u2019t a Fluke \u2014 Scientists See Black Holes Collide Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/it-wasnt-a-fluke-scientists-see-black-holes-collide-again.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have seen two black holes crash into each other and merge for the second time, proving Albert Einstein was right and showing the first observation was no fluke.<\/p>\n<p>Ultra-sensitive instruments called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected the ripple in gravitational waves that came across space and time to Earth last December, the team reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/it-wasn-t-fluke-scientists-see-black-holes-collide-again-n593156?cid=sm_fb\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/it-wasn-t-fluke-...?cid=sm_fb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have seen two black holes crash into each other and merge for the second time, proving Albert Einstein was right and showing the first observation was no fluke. Ultra-sensitive instruments called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected the ripple in gravitational waves that came across space and time to Earth last December, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67192,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions\/67192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}