Signals from a spectacular neutron star merger that made gravitational waves are slowly fading away
- Written by Tara Murphy, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
Neutron star merger.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
Eight months ago, the detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger had us and other astronomers around the world rushing to observe one of the most energetic events in the universe.
What most people don’t realise is that we continued to observe the...