{"id":11374,"date":"2021-04-17T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11374"},"modified":"2021-05-07T19:56:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T02:56:52","slug":"black-hole-stun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/17\/black-hole-stun\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Hole Stun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2021\/02\/black-hole-collisions-gravitational-waves\/618095\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A New Era of Black Holes Is Here<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a black-hole treasure trove that is changing our view of the cosmos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/thomas-lewton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">THOMAS LEWTON<\/a>\u00a0AND\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/quanta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">QUANTA MAGAZINE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/0p_sbe47tkmLwA3ZGXrEnpvdTLc=\/0x0:2500x1406\/720x405\/media\/img\/mt\/2021\/02\/GettyImages_724237095\/original.jpg\" alt=\"A blurry image of a black hole\"\/><figcaption><em>MARK GARLICK \/ SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY \/ GETTY<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/gravitational-waves-discovered-at-long-last-20160211\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first black-hole collision<\/a>\u00a0was detected in 2015, it was a watershed moment in the history of astronomy. Using gravitational waves, astronomers were observing the universe in an entirely new way. But this first event didn\u2019t revolutionize our understanding of black holes\u2014nor could it. This collision would be the first of many, astronomers knew, and only with that bounty would answers come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe first discovery was the thrill of our lives,\u201d says Vicky Kalogera, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University and part of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration that made the 2015 detection. \u201cBut you cannot do astrophysics with one source.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Kalogera and other physicists say they\u2019re entering a new era of black-hole astronomy, driven by a rapid increase in the number of black holes they can observe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2010.14527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The latest catalog<\/a>\u00a0of these so-called black-hole binary mergers\u2014the result of two black holes spiraling inward toward each other and colliding\u2014has quadrupled the black-hole merger data available to study. There are now almost 50 mergers for astrophysicists to scrutinize, with dozens more expected in the next few months and hundreds more in the coming years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2021\/02\/black-hole-collisions-gravitational-waves\/618095\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Atlantic<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Atlantic A New Era of Black Holes Is Here Astronomers have discovered a black-hole treasure trove that is changing our view of the cosmos. by THOMAS LEWTON\u00a0AND\u00a0QUANTA MAGAZINE When the\u00a0first black-hole collision\u00a0was detected in 2015, it was a watershed moment in the history of astronomy. Using gravitational waves, astronomers were observing the universe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}