Questions – What happens when black holes collide with the most dense stars in the universe
For the first time, a faint signal caused by the merging of two almost equally mysterious objects – a black hole and a neutron star – has been recorded on Earth. On January 5 2020, when the world was first learning of the COVID-19 outbreak, gravitational waves from...
How Engineers discovered gravitational waves from ‘neutron stars’ – and why it’s such a huge deal
Rumours have been swirling for weeks that scientists have detected gravitational waves – tiny ripples in space and time – from a source other than colliding black holes. Now we can finally confirm that we’ve observed such waves produced by the violent collision of two massive, ultra-dense stars...