{"id":71432,"date":"2021-03-20T06:10:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T10:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71432"},"modified":"2021-02-20T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T21:58:41","slug":"gravitational-wave-background-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71432","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was pretty impressive when LIGO detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Well, we\u2019ve just taken that to the next level with a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that may have detected a foundational element of space itself &#8211; the gravitational wave background.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L9L_gNogNes\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Walk the Arecibo Catwalk With Matt: <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-5j98wi_M2w&amp;t=0s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-5j98&#8230;<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Learn More About Gravitational Waves <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gw-i_VKd6Wo&amp;t=0s\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/gw-i_VKd6Wo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space-Time Discord! <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbl80ZkdJbF9HNElkTzBkbkFfdjZsV0d2WHFJZ3xBQ3Jtc0tsMVVXODVPQkFrWGRsNlVNTGNtRFBUR3VOTEdGNUR5d1dwdEJiMklLSG1hZDNQOG8tVHVmS2FFRGxqM3Z4eUtHcEpoT0FtZklvNDV1YkJVNW9SQ2o4aVptZGRTMm5WYTh2dkw4N1RuWDFacE1tQ2U3VQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fpbsspacetime%E2%80%8B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was pretty impressive when LIGO detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Well, we\u2019ve just taken that to the next level with a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that may have detected a foundational element of space itself &#8211; the gravitational wave background. Walk the Arecibo Catwalk With Matt: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-5j98&#8230;\u200b Learn More About Gravitational Waves https:\/\/youtu.be\/gw-i_VKd6Wo Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space-Time Discord! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[97,551,853],"class_list":["post-71432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","tag-education","tag-education-saturday","tag-space-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71433,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71432\/revisions\/71433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}