New-and-improved LIGO may have detected a black hole eating a neutron star

The first detection of gravitational waves – ripples in the very fabric of spacetime, caused by cataclysmic events like black holes colliding – was one of the most important physics discoveries in a century. Three years on, we're now getting new detections so often it almost doesn't seem special anymore. Barely a month into a new observation run, the LIGO/Virgo collaboration has now reported five new events, including what may be the first ever detection of a black hole swallowing a neutron star.

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Category: Physics

Tags:

• Astronomy
• Black hole
• Caltech
• gravitational waves
• LIGO
• MIT
• Physics
• Stars

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