{"id":614274,"date":"2019-05-02T09:50:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=487a5da2ac339cc37b063eedc2058a0a"},"modified":"2019-05-02T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:50:02","slug":"ligo-and-virgo-detect-neutron-star-smash-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=614274","title":{"rendered":"LIGO and Virgo detect neutron star smash-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation&#8217;s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based Virgo detector registered gravitational waves from what appears likely to be a crash between two neutron stars\u2014the dense remnants of massive stars that previously exploded. One day later, on April 26, the LIGO-Virgo network spotted another candidate source with a potentially interesting twist: it may in fact have resulted from the collision of a neutron star and black hole, an event never before witnessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation&#8217;s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based Virgo detector registered gravitational waves from what appears likely to be a crash between two neutron stars\u2014the de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3230,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614274","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614275,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614274\/revisions\/614275"}],"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=614274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}