{"600337":{"#nid":"600337","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Breakthrough of the Year 2017: Two Neutron Star Collide and Drive Physicists Wild ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYes, last year\u0026#39;s detection of neutron stars colliding was indeed \u0026quot;kind of a big deal,\u0026quot; especially here at Georgia Tech. Seventeen of our faculty members, researchers, and students were part of the international\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ligo.org\/\u0022\u003E Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory\u003C\/a\u003E team that detected the first-ever observation of a kilonova, or neutron star mashup. LIGO Deputy Spokesperson\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/laura-cadonati\u0022\u003E Laura Cadonati\u003C\/a\u003E, quoted in this story, is also a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E. (This Newsweek story is essentially a recap of a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vis.sciencemag.org\/breakthrough2017\/finalists\/#cosmic-convergence\u0022\u003EScience\u003C\/a\u003E magazine item that named LIGO\u0026#39;s discovery as Breakthrough of the Year.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2018-01-03 15:50:33","changed_gmt":"2018-01-03 15:50:33","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Elizabeth Kornegay","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/breakthrough-year-2017-two-neutron-stars-collide-and-drive-physicists-wild-756932","dateline":{"date":"2017-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"592333":{"id":"592333","type":"image","title":"Laura Cadonati","body":null,"created":"1496335703","gmt_created":"2017-06-01 16:48:23","changed":"1496335703","gmt_changed":"2017-06-01 16:48:23","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225753","name":"Laura Cadonati .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Laura%20Cadonati%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Laura%20Cadonati%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1565511,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Laura%20Cadonati%20.jpg?itok=jgjairoa"}}},"media_ids":["592333"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"120191","name":"Laura Cadonati"},{"id":"175925","name":"kilonova"},{"id":"99091","name":"Gravitational waves"},{"id":"175916","name":"Neutron Stars"},{"id":"120161","name":"LIGO"}],"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":""}}}