11 July 2016
Short gamma-ray burst is from a binary neutron star coalescing into a black hole say researchers
... by identifying a sequence of gamma-ray burst events, the team have found the first evidence of a binary neutron star system merging into a Kerr-Newman black hole. When the first gravitational wave event detected by LIGO (GW150194) hit...
04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
... supernova explosions found themselves sufficiently close together before spiralling inwards and merging. “At the beginning of my career, astronomers could only observe neutron stars and black holes in our own galaxy, and now we are observing these...
16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
... detected gravitational waves, but this time, not from merging black holes. In a far away galaxy – around...more than make up for it in mass; neutron stars. Neutron stars are the smallest, densest known stars to exist and they typically have a radius...
