Tuesday 19 May 2020

Scientists puzzle over massive, never-before-seen star system in the Milky Way

Scientists puzzle over massive, never-before-seen star system in the Milky Way

Earlier this year, an international team of scientists announced the second detection of a gravitational-wave signal from the collision of two neutron stars. The event, called GW190425, is puzzling: The combined mass of the two neutron stars is greater than any other observed binary neutron star system. The combined mass is 3.4 times the mass of our sun.

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