{"id":28350,"date":"2016-07-27T13:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/did-the-ligo-gravitational-waves-originate-from-primordial-black-holes"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:10:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:10:44","slug":"did-the-ligo-gravitational-waves-originate-from-primordial-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/did-the-ligo-gravitational-waves-originate-from-primordial-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"Did the LIGO gravitational waves originate from primordial black holes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/did-the-ligo-gravitational-waves-originate-from-primordial-black-holes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Binary black holes recently discovered by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration could be primordial entities that formed just after the Big Bang, report Japanese astrophysicists.<\/p>\n<p>If further data support this observation, it could mark the first confirmed finding of a primordial black hole, guiding theories about the beginnings of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the LIGO-Virgo collaboration announced the first successful detection of gravitational waves.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160727103436.htm#.V5kWhSL_V7Y.facebook\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160727103436.h...Y.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binary black holes recently discovered by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration could be primordial entities that formed just after the Big Bang, report Japanese astrophysicists. If further data support this observation, it could mark the first confirmed finding of a primordial black hole, guiding theories about the beginnings of the universe. In February, the LIGO-Virgo collaboration announced [\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-28350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350","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=28350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50095,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350\/revisions\/50095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}