Scientists At LIGO And Virgo Have Identified Two Colliding Neutron Stars For Only The Second Time.

Monday, January 6, 2020

Scientists at LIGO and Virgo have identified two colliding neutron stars for only the second time. The results were announced today (January 6, 2020) at a press briefing at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Hawaii: https://www.ligo.org/detections/GW190425/pr-english.pdf

See also https://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-GW190425/index.php

image: Aurore Simonnet imagining the scene of this pair of colliding neutron stars.