Two white dwarfs collide, may end up as neutron star
Enlarge / Two white dwarfs pondering a merger. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) It seems like you can’t go a day without hearing news of a merger. Not corporate mergers—those are boring. Mergers…
LIGO may have spotted a black hole-neutron star merger
Enlarge / Our gravitational wave detectors really are a series of tubes. (credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab) On April 1, the teams behind the three gravitational wave detectors started them up for…