{"id":73623,"date":"2017-11-02T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/neutron-star-merger-confirms-decades-of-predictions"},"modified":"2017-11-02T10:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:02:33","slug":"neutron-star-merger-confirms-decades-of-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/neutron-star-merger-confirms-decades-of-predictions","title":{"rendered":"Neutron star merger confirms decades of predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neutron-star-merger-confirms-decades-of-predictions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While black hole collisions produce almost no signature other than gravitational waves, the collision of neutron stars can be \u2014 and was \u2014 observed up and down the electromagnetic spectrum. \u201cWhen neutron stars collide, all hell breaks loose,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/phy.princeton.edu\/people\/frans-pretorius\">Frans Pretorius<\/a>, a Princeton <a href=\"https:\/\/phy.princeton.edu\/\">physics<\/a> professor. \u201cThey start producing a tremendous amount of visible light, and also gamma rays, X-rays, radio waves\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Princeton researchers have been studying neutron stars and their astronomical signatures for decades.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/01\/neutron-star-merger-confirms-decades-predictions-princeton-researchers\">https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/01\/neutron-star-merge...esearchers<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While black hole collisions produce almost no signature other than gravitational waves, the collision of neutron stars can be \u2014 and was \u2014 observed up and down the electromagnetic spectrum. \u201cWhen neutron stars collide, all hell breaks loose,\u201d said Frans Pretorius, a Princeton physics professor. \u201cThey start producing a tremendous amount of visible light, and [\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-73623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73623","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=73623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}