{"id":98118,"date":"2019-11-04T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/squeeze-leads-to-stellar-mass-black-hole-collision-precision"},"modified":"2019-11-04T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:23:29","slug":"squeeze-leads-to-stellar-mass-black-hole-collision-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/squeeze-leads-to-stellar-mass-black-hole-collision-precision","title":{"rendered":"Squeeze leads to stellar-mass black hole collision precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/squeeze-leads-to-stellar-mass-black-hole-collision-precision.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a way to better detect all collisions of stellar-mass black holes in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Stellar-mass black holes are formed by the gravitational collapse of a star. Their collisions are some of the most violent events in the universe, creating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gravitational+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gravitational waves<\/a> or ripples in space-time.<\/p>\n<p>These ripples are miniscule and detected using laser interferometers. Until now, many signals have been drowned out by so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+noise\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum noise<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser light<\/a> pushing the mirrors of the laser interferometer around\u2014making the measurements fuzzy or imprecise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a way to better detect all collisions of stellar-mass black holes in the universe. Stellar-mass black holes are formed by the gravitational collapse of a star. Their collisions are some of the most violent events in the universe, creating gravitational waves or ripples in space-time. These [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98118","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=98118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}