{"629173":{"#nid":"629173","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Observing A New Class Of Black Holes Can Help Us Understand The Universe ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor all science has learned about black holes in the last decade, researchers had only really estabished two different sizes for these celestial phenomena \u0026mdash; stellar, or five to 50 times greater than the size of our sun, and supermassive, or a million times greater than our nearby star. Nothing had been found in-between. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-019-0932-7\u0022\u003ENew research\u003C\/a\u003E from a team including current and former Georgia Tech scientists could shed new light on intermediate-size black holes. Using a new method of observation called multiband gravitational wave astronomy that spans a wider range of wave frequencies, the new study picks up where LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) left off in 2016 with the discovery of evidence of gravitational waves. A handful of Georgia Tech scientists and students were part of that international Nobel Prize-winning effort, including study co-authors Deirdre Shoemaker, professor in the School of Physics, and Karan Jani, who received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from Georgia Tech and is now at Vanderbilt University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2019-11-20 18:44:50","changed_gmt":"2019-11-20 19:03:03","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Kausik Chakrabarti","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/charlottekiang\/2019\/11\/18\/how-observing-a-new-class-of-black-holes-can-help-us-understand-the-universe\/#385c4e961b13","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"120161","name":"LIGO"},{"id":"13402","name":"Deirdre Shoemaker"},{"id":"173122","name":"KAran Jani"},{"id":"183119","name":"multiband gravitational wave astronomy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}