{"id":208687,"date":"2020-12-04T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T17:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/?p=208687"},"modified":"2020-12-04T14:13:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T19:13:21","slug":"a-roar-a-crash-and-a-major-scientific-tool-that-was-a-piece-of-new-jerseys-roots-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2020\/12\/04\/a-roar-a-crash-and-a-major-scientific-tool-that-was-a-piece-of-new-jerseys-roots-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"A roar, a crash and a major scientific tool that was a piece of New Jersey\u2019s roots is gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The loss of the Arecibo Observatory is a significant blow to U.S. science, particularly in the field of gravitational-wave physics, where it played a key role in monitoring the timing of <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gjLk_72V9Bw\" target=\"_blank\">pulsar &#8220;blips.&#8221;<\/a> This technique could eventually lead to the detection of gravitational waves from supermassive black hole mergers or from the constant background &#8216;hiss&#8217; of numerous black hole collisions throughout the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Read Dr. Favata&#8217;s full <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/opinion\/2020\/12\/a-roar-a-crash-and-a-major-scientific-tool-and-a-piece-of-new-jerseys-roots-is-gone-opinion.html\" target=\"_blank\">opinion piece on NJ.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Marc Favata discusses the Arecibo Observatory, a radio telescope in Puerto Rico, that recently collapsed due to damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":208690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-media","category-physics-and-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208692,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208687\/revisions\/208692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}