{"id":83936,"date":"2018-10-24T21:44:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T04:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/we-now-have-evidence-that-supermassive-black-holes-could-be-spectacularly-colliding-across-the-universe"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:08:28","slug":"we-now-have-evidence-that-supermassive-black-holes-could-be-spectacularly-colliding-across-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/we-now-have-evidence-that-supermassive-black-holes-could-be-spectacularly-colliding-across-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"We Now Have Evidence That Supermassive Black Holes Could Be Spectacularly Colliding Across The Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-now-have-evidence-that-supermassive-black-holes-could-be-spectacularly-colliding-across-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have previously suspected supermassive black holes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dense-black-hole-clusters-could-merge-again-and-again\">can merge together<\/a>, and have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ligo-discovers-backwards-spinning-black-holes-in-yet-another-set-of-gravitational-waves\">seen signs<\/a> of these cosmic collisions on a smaller scale. Now new research backs up the hypothesis \u2013 and shows evidence that it could be happening all across the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers studying detailed radio maps of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astrophysical_jet\">jet sources<\/a> \u2013 powerful beams of ionised matter thrown out by black holes \u2013 have found a surprisingly high number of scenarios that matched patterns consistent with binary black holes (two black holes orbiting each other).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-now-have-evidence-that-supermassive-black-holes-could-be-spectacularly-colliding-across-the-universe2.jpg\" alt=\"black hole merge 2\" width=\"700\"><br \/> Jet stream radio map. (M. Krause\/University of Hertfordshire) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/supermassive-black-hole-mergers-happening-across-universe\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/supermassive-black-hole-mergers...s-universe<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have previously suspected supermassive black holes can merge together, and have seen signs of these cosmic collisions on a smaller scale. Now new research backs up the hypothesis \u2013 and shows evidence that it could be happening all across the Universe. Astronomers studying detailed radio maps of jet sources \u2013 powerful beams of ionised [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83936","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83996,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83936\/revisions\/83996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}