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Heavyweight Merger [1]

A black hole (surrounded by a disk of hot gas, left) begins to swallow a neutron star in this artist's concept. Astronomers detected the "jiggle" of spacetime caused by such a merger in August. [Carl Knox/OxGrav ARC Centre of Excellence]

 

Heavy Merger
Black hole begins to swallow a neutron star
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