{"id":35942,"date":"2017-04-06T16:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/mystery-of-how-black-holes-collide-and-merge-starting-to-unravel"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:52","slug":"mystery-of-how-black-holes-collide-and-merge-starting-to-unravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/mystery-of-how-black-holes-collide-and-merge-starting-to-unravel","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of How Black Holes Collide and Merge Starting to Unravel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mystery-of-how-black-holes-collide-and-merge-starting-to-unravel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, two black holes collided, releasing energy which undulates across the universe. Little is known about these reverberations \u2014 dubbed \u201cgravitational waves\u201d \u2014 including how they were formed in the first place. However, a University of Birmingham astrophysicist told Sputnik science may now have the beginnings of an answer.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s believed that around 1.3 billion light years away from Earth, two black holes cataclysmically collided, releasing energy \u2014 gravitational waves \u2014 which undulates across the universe like ripples in a pool.<\/p>\n<p>Gravitational waves had long been speculated upon, and were a major prediction of Albert Einstein\u2019s 1915 general theory of relativity, but the existence of these wrinkles in the fabric of space-time was only confirmed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/research\/heroes\/gravitational-waves.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">September 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/science\/201704061052371274-black-holes-gravitational-waves\/\">https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/science\/201704061052371274-black-hol...nal-waves\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, two black holes collided, releasing energy which undulates across the universe. Little is known about these reverberations \u2014 dubbed \u201cgravitational waves\u201d \u2014 including how they were formed in the first place. However, a University of Birmingham astrophysicist told Sputnik science may now have the beginnings of an answer. It\u2019s believed that [\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-35942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35942","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=35942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58148,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35942\/revisions\/58148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}