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Science in a Minute: First Detection of Gravitational Waves From Black Hole-Neutron Star Collisions


Science in a Minute: First Detection of Gravitational Waves From Black Hole-Neutron Star Collisions
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Scientists at the LIGO and VIRGO observatories detected and confirmed the first gravitational waves produced by the collision and merger of a black hole with a neutron star, not once but twice within 10 days of each other. Previously confirmed gravitational wave detections were the results of either the collisions of a black hole and another black hole or a neutron star with a neutron star, not one of each.

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