08-21-2019, 10:07 AM
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Norm!
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Very cool
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/n...wave-1.5253566
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irst, astronomers made history when they detected a gravitational wave from two black holes merging. Then it was two neutron stars. Now, astronomers believe they've detected a gravitational wave coming from another first-time discovery: a black hole swallowing a neutron star.
Both of these objects — a neutron star and a black hole — are mind-blowing cosmological objects. A neutron star is just the size of a small city but with mass so great that just a teaspoon of its material would weigh 10 million tonnes.
A black hole, on the other hand, is a point in space that isn't made of material at all, but is pure space-time, where, once something crosses its threshold — such as light — it can never escape.
When these two colossal objects meet, something has to give. And in this case, it was the neutron star.
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