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Why astrophysicists are over the moon about observing merging neutron stars

  • Written by Roy Kilgard, Research Associate Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan University
imageSimulation of two neutron stars merging.NASA/AEI/ZIB/M. Koppitz and L. Rezzolla, CC BY

When LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, first detected gravitational waves from merging black holes, it opened up a new window in astrophysics and provided the most powerful confirmation yet of Einstein’s theory of general...

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