{"id":255451,"date":"2016-12-23T07:40:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T11:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f8b9081c38e39d508b0f1287148d2a7d"},"modified":"2016-12-23T07:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T11:40:22","slug":"ligo-discovery-named-sciences-2016-breakthrough-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=255451","title":{"rendered":"LIGO discovery named Science&#8217;s 2016 Breakthrough of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific journal, Science, has chosen as its 2016 Breakthrough of the Year the discovery of tiny ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves \u2013 a finding that confirmed a century-old prediction by Albert Einstein. LSU faculty and graduate students are part of the 1,000-member LIGO Scientific Collaboration responsible for the discovery. LSU Department of Physics &#038; Astronomy Professor Gabriela Gonz\u00e1lez serves as the spokesperson for the LIGO, or Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, international collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific journal, Science, has chosen as its 2016 Breakthrough of the Year the discovery of tiny ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves &ndash; a finding that confirmed a century-old prediction by Albert Einstein. LSU faculty and graduate students are part of the 1,000-member LIGO Scientific Collaboration responsible for the discovery. LSU Department of Physics &amp; Astronomy Professor Gabriela Gonz&aacute;lez serves as the spokesperson for the LIGO, or Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, international collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255452,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255451\/revisions\/255452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}