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Above, an artist's illustration of GW170817, the neutron-star collision whose gravitational waves were detected in August 2017. Below, you can see the progression of the event.
An artist's depiction of the neutron star collision scientists observed in August, which they now believe created a small black hole. NASA/CXC/M.Weiss ...
A black hole-neutron star collision has finally been detected. July 6, 2021 at 9:32 p.m. | Updated July 6, 2021 at 9:35 p.m. by NYTimes News Service ...
The collision, which should have formed a black hole, instead (apparently) formed a magnetar, a supermassive, highly-energetic neutron star. Just around two dozen magnetars have been discovered so ...
Massive black hole discovered in Milky Way 01:09. Scientists have previously captured two black holes smashing together and the collision of two neutron stars — but they "have waiting a very ...
Ghosh emphasizes that since black holes don’t actually have a surface, a neutron star and a black hole merger isn’t really a collision that might spew matter out in every direction, but rather ...
A collision between a black hole and a neutron star was the last type of event on LIGO’s wishlist. Carl Knox/OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence ...
Astronomers have yet to witness a collision between a black hole and a neutron star, but they predict that such a smashup would unleash huge amounts of energy but, unexpectedly, might not generate ...
“We’ve never detected a neutron star and a black hole together,” UC Santa Cruz astronomer Ryan Foley told Vice. “If it turns out to be right, then we’ve confirmed a new type of star ...
On Jan. 15, 2020, the Hanford site was back up, and all three instruments detected the second collision of a black hole and a neutron star. This one was a bit farther away.
Scientists say they may have detected the never-before-seen collision of a neutron star and a black hole, a collision between two neutron stars and three potential black hole mergers.
Not all black holes form the same way, but this ultra-low-mass black hole would have taken shape after two supernova explosions left two neutron stars in a close-enough orbit for gravitational ...