{"id":91775,"date":"2019-06-08T10:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/halo-drive-lasers-and-black-holes-could-launch-spaceships-to-near-light-speed"},"modified":"2019-06-08T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:04:52","slug":"halo-drive-lasers-and-black-holes-could-launch-spaceships-to-near-light-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/halo-drive-lasers-and-black-holes-could-launch-spaceships-to-near-light-speed","title":{"rendered":"Halo Drive: Lasers and Black Holes Could Launch Spaceships to Near Light Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/halo-drive-lasers-and-black-holes-could-launch-spaceships-to-near-light-speed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Future spaceships could use black holes as powerful launch pads to explore the stars.<\/p>\n<p>A new study envisions firing laser beams that would curve around a black hole and come back with added energy to help propel a spacecraft to near the speed of light. Astronomers could look for signs that alien civilizations are using such a \u201chalo drive,\u201d as the study dubs it, by seeing if pairs of black holes are merging more often than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Study author David Kipping, an astrophysicist at Columbia University in New York, came up with the idea of the halo drive through what he calls \u201cthe gamer\u2019s mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/halo-drive-black-holes-galaxy-travel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future spaceships could use black holes as powerful launch pads to explore the stars. A new study envisions firing laser beams that would curve around a black hole and come back with added energy to help propel a spacecraft to near the speed of light. Astronomers could look for signs that alien civilizations are using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91775","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}