Why the gravitational waves splashed by the merger of two dying stars spells a revolution in astronomy
Two merging neutron stars were detected on Aug. 17 in the galaxy NGC 4993m about 130 million light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA. In a galaxy far, far away, some 130 million years ago, two neutron stars smashed into each other in an event calleda ‘kilonova’ event, which astronomers have just witnessed for the first time. The…
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