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  • Astronomers Just Detected a Second, Epic Neutron Star Collision

    01/08/2020 10:04:26 AM PST · by C19fan · 23 replies
    Science Alert ^ | January 7, 2020 | Michelle Star
    Our magnificent gravitational wave astronomers have done it again, adding to the detection collection a new collision between two neutron stars. On 25 April 2019, the LIGO interferometer detected two neutron stars around 520 million light-years away coming together and merging into a single object. It's called GW190425, and although it's only the second such collision astronomers have ever seen, it's already broadening our understanding of these colossal cosmic smash-ups.