{"id":89008,"date":"2019-03-28T14:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/an-experiment-that-solved-a-100-year-old-mystery-posed-by-einstein-is-about-to-turn-back-on-and-its-more-powerful-than-ever"},"modified":"2019-03-28T14:22:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:22:45","slug":"an-experiment-that-solved-a-100-year-old-mystery-posed-by-einstein-is-about-to-turn-back-on-and-its-more-powerful-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/an-experiment-that-solved-a-100-year-old-mystery-posed-by-einstein-is-about-to-turn-back-on-and-its-more-powerful-than-ever","title":{"rendered":"An experiment that solved a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein is about to turn back on \u2014 and it\u2019s more powerful than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-experiment-that-solved-a-100-year-old-mystery-posed-by-einstein-is-about-to-turn-back-on-and-its-more-powerful-than-ever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>Colliding black holes and neutron stars create ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves. These were \u201cheard\u201d for the first time in September 2015. <\/li>\n<li>On Monday, a pair of gravitational-wave detectors called LIGO will turn back on after 6 months of downtime and upgrades. <\/li>\n<li>To boost its power, the experiment will now work with a sister machine in Italy called Virgo. <\/li>\n<li>Physicists expect the next period of searching for colliding black holes to last a year and be 40% more sensitive than before. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the most remarkable experiments in history \u2014 a pair of giant machines that listen for ripples in spacetime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/objects-gravitational-waves-can-detect-2016-2\/?r=AU&IR=T\"> called gravitational waves<\/a> \u2014 will wake up from a half-year nap on Monday. And it will be about 40% stronger than before.<\/p>\n<p>That experiment is called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ligo.caltech.edu\/\">LIGO<\/a>); it consists of two giant, L-shaped detectors that together solved a 100-year-old mystery posed by Albert Einstein.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/ligo-virgo-detecting-gravitational-waves-more-sensitive-black-hole-collisions-2019-3\">https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/ligo-virgo-detecting-gravita...2019&#45;3<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colliding black holes and neutron stars create ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves. These were \u201cheard\u201d for the first time in September 2015. On Monday, a pair of gravitational-wave detectors called LIGO will turn back on after 6 months of downtime and upgrades. To boost its power, the experiment will now work with a sister [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89008","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}