{"id":27220,"date":"2016-06-27T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-universe-is-crowded-with-black-holes-astronomers-predict"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:11:58","slug":"the-universe-is-crowded-with-black-holes-astronomers-predict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-universe-is-crowded-with-black-holes-astronomers-predict","title":{"rendered":"The universe is crowded with black holes, astronomers predict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universe-is-crowded-with-black-holes-astronomers-predict.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study published in <em>Nature<\/em> presents one of the most complete models of matter in the universe and predicts hundreds of massive black hole mergers each year observable with the second generation of gravitational wave detectors.<\/p>\n<p>The model anticipated the massive black holes observed by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. The two colliding masses created the first directly detected gravitational waves and confirmed Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe universe isn\u2019t the same everywhere,\u201d said Richard O\u2019Shaughnessy, assistant professor in RIT\u2019s School of Mathematical Sciences, and co-author of the study led by Krzysztof Belczynski from Warsaw University. \u201cSome places produce many more binary black holes than others. Our study takes these differences into careful account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/06\/160622144930.htm#.V3FfgLp_q1I.facebook\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/06\/160622144930.h...I.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Nature presents one of the most complete models of matter in the universe and predicts hundreds of massive black hole mergers each year observable with the second generation of gravitational wave detectors. The model anticipated the massive black holes observed by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. The two colliding masses [\u2026]<\/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-27220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27220","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=27220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61389,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27220\/revisions\/61389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}