{"id":598448,"date":"2019-03-28T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1b17158bb6b0a1ec96c247e5da16f20f"},"modified":"2019-03-28T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:59:31","slug":"ligo-and-virgo-resume-search-for-ripples-in-space-and-time-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=598448","title":{"rendered":"LIGO and Virgo resume search for ripples in space and time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Science Foundation&#8217;s LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is set to resume its hunt for gravitational waves\u2014ripples in space and time\u2014on April 1, after receiving a series of upgrades to its lasers, mirrors, and other components. LIGO\u2014which consists of twin detectors located in Washington and Louisiana\u2014now has a combined increase in sensitivity of about 40 percent over its last run, which means that it can survey an even larger volume of space than before for powerful, wave-making events, such as the collisions of black holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Science Foundation&#8217;s LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is set to resume its hunt for gravitational waves&mdash;ripples in space and time&mdash;on April 1, after receiving a series of upgrades to its lasers, mirrors, and other components. LIGO&mdash;which consists of twin detectors located in Washington and Louisiana&mdash;now has a combined increase in sensitivity of about 40 percent over its last run, which means that it can survey an even larger volume of space than before for powerful, wave-making events, such as the collisions of black holes.<\/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-598448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598448","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=598448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598449,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598448\/revisions\/598449"}],"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=598448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}