Scientists Are Exited About This Mysterious Black Hole-like Object

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PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — Astronomers have long wondered what lies within the so-called mass gap between black holes and neutron stars. The largest known neutron star is 2.5 times the size of our Sun, while the smallest known balck hole is five solar masses.

In a new study from the National Science Foundation’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, and the Virgo detector in Europe, scientists have announced the discovery of an object of 2.6 solar masses.

This object, which some are calling a “black neutron star,” existed about 800 million light-years away from Earth in a binary pairing with a large black hole of 23 solar masses.

These two interstellar bodies collided in an event called GW190814, creating a huge splash of gravitational waves.

LIGO and Virgo detected the black neutron star in August of 2019, as it merged with the black hole, leaving a newly formed black hole about 25 times the size of our Sun.

A paper about the detection has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

SOURCES: California Institute of Technology, BBC News, Gizmodo

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Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow

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How many black holes are there now, and can the black hole move, or did the black hole just eat the planets and get and get bigger?

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