{"id":589379,"date":"2017-10-18T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/news\/2017\/10\/gravitational-waves-show-how-fast-the-universe-is-expanding"},"modified":"2017-10-18T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T10:00:00","slug":"gravitational-waves-show-how-fast-the-universe-is-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=589379","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational Waves Show How Fast The Universe is Expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first gravitational wave observed from a neutron star merger offers the potential for a whole raft of new discoveries. Among them is a more precise measurement of the Hubble constant, which captures how fast our universe is expanding.<br \/>\nEver since the Big Bang, everything in the universe has been spreading apart. It also turns out that this is happening faster and faster &mdash; the rate of expansion is increasing.<br \/>\nWe&rsquo;ve known this for a century, but astronomers haven&rsquo;t been able t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first gravitational wave observed from a neutron star merger offers the potential for a whole raft of new discoveries. Among them is a more precise measurement of the Hubble constant, which captures how fast our universe is expanding.<br \/>\nEver since th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-589379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-kosmos","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}