LIGO and Virgo probably spotted the
first black hole swallowing up a neutron
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astronomers may have detected
gravitational waves from a new type of
event shutters in the cosmos have
revealed what's likely the sad end of a
neutron star getting swallowed by a
black hole if confirmed it would be the
first solid detection of the source of
gravitational waves revealing a type of
Cataclysm never before spotted
researchers from alike au and Virgo
gravitational wave observatory z'
reported the candidate event which was
detected August 14 in a public database
used by astronomers scientists are still
analyzing the data to verify what
created the gravitational waves which
are tiny vibrations in space-time caused
by massive accelerating objects but one
thing seems fairly certain something has
occurred out there in the sky says
physicist Daniel halts of the University
of Chicago a member of LIGO so far it
doesn't obviously look like anything
we've detected with high confidence
before LIGO and Virgo previously have
picked up gravitational waves from pairs
of merging black holes and from
colliding neutron stars which are
extremely dense collapsed stars in April
scientists saw a tentative hints of a
rendezvous between a black hole and
neutron star but the signal was weak and
could have been a false alarm this new
discovery offers much more solid
evidence the detection was so clear that
it's considered very unlikely to be a
false alarm
the researchers estimate that the run-in
between the two objects occurred around
900 million light years away and within
an area about 23 square degrees across
the sky for comparison the moon is about
half a degree across astronomers have
since been peering at that region with
their telescopes looking for any light
that may have been emitted in the merger
such light could have been released if
the neutron star were torn apart by the
black hole before being gulf within its
depths further study of the encounter
could help reveal new secrets about some
of the universe's most mysterious
objects but the potential detection is
exciting on its own hull says
the first of anything is always really
fascinating
