{"id":86568,"date":"2019-01-10T01:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T09:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/japan%ef%bb%bfs-pioneering-detector-set-%ef%bb%bfto-join-hunt-for-gravitational-waves"},"modified":"2019-01-10T01:04:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T09:04:24","slug":"japan%ef%bb%bfs-pioneering-detector-set-%ef%bb%bfto-join-hunt-for-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/japan%ef%bb%bfs-pioneering-detector-set-%ef%bb%bfto-join-hunt-for-gravitational-waves","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019\ufeffs pioneering detector set \ufeffto join hunt for gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanefbbbfs-pioneering-detector-set-efbbbfto-join-hunt-for-gravitational-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u00a516.4-billion (US$148-million) observatory \u2014 Japan\u2019s Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA) \u2014 will work on the same principle as the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the United States and the Virgo solo machine in Italy. In the past few years, these machines have begun to detect gravitational waves \u2014 long-sought ripples in the fabric of space-time created by cataclysmic cosmic events such as the merging of two black holes or the collision of two neutron stars.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>LIGO\u2019s Asian cousin will this year deploy ambitious technology to improve sensitivity in the search for these faint, cosmic ripples \u2014 but its biggest enemy could be snowmelt.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-07867-z\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586&#45;018&#45;07867-z<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a516.4-billion (US$148-million) observatory \u2014 Japan\u2019s Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA) \u2014 will work on the same principle as the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the United States and the Virgo solo machine in Italy. In the past few years, these machines have begun to detect gravitational waves \u2014 long-sought [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86568","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}