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Gravitational Waves From Colliding Neutron Stars Matched to a Fast Radio Burst

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) were first detected in 2007 (the Lorimer Burst ) and have remained one of the...

Gravitational Wave Observatories Could Search for Warp Drive Signatures

In 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that they had made the first confirmed detection...

Hubble Examines the Wreckage From the 2017 Kilonova

In August 2017, astronomers observed a Gravitational Wave (GW) signal that resulted from the merger of two neutron stars...

Shortly Before They Collided, two Black Holes Tangled Spacetime up Into Knots

In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs)....

Two Stars Orbiting Each Other Every 51 Minutes. This Can’t End Well

We don’t have to worry too much about our Sun. It can burn our skin, and it can...

Binary Stars Live Complicated Lives, Especially Near the End

We know what will happen to our Sun. It’ll follow the same path other stars of its ilk...

Colliding Black Holes Provide Another way to Measure Distance in the Universe

We know the universe is expanding, and we have a pretty good idea of how fast it’s expanding, but...

Gravitational Waves Will Give Astronomers a new way to Look Inside Neutron Stars

It’s difficult to study neutron stars. They are light years away and only about 20 kilometers across. ...

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