24 July 2020
A first of its kind white dwarf merger with a dense compact object discovered by students
...on the hunt for more. Current reports suggest that binary black hole mergers are being discovered by LIGO and its sister facility... of a white dwarf with either a neutron star or a black hole. “The explosion is likely to be the result of a merger ...
05 October 2016
Neutron star natal kicks could be the catalyst for binary formation and new gravitational wave sources
... that it could be tidally-captured into a close orbit, eventually forming an X-ray binary. Nonetheless, in other cases, the kick could also produce black hole - neutron star (BH-NS) binaries with very short merger times. This could possibly give rise...
