04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
...strong case for it until now." While the resulting object of GW170817 is not completely clear cut, if it turns out not to ...weighing in at about 2.7 times the mass of the Sun. “GW170817 is the astronomical event that keeps on giving,” said J. Craig ...
16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
... Sun (a solar mass is equal to approximately 1.99 × 1030 kilograms). This recent event captured by LIGO and Virgo, known as GW170817, is not only significant because of the subjects that were identified, but because of what else accompanied it. Two...
24 July 2020
A first of its kind white dwarf merger with a dense compact object discovered by students
An explosion in space discovered in 2018 by a Queen’s University, Belfast student has turned out to be the first observed merger of its kind, and only the second ever compact merger to be seen via the light it emitted when the cataclysmic event took...
