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The new flavor of the collision includes one black hole and one neutron star, making it sort of a mix. Artist’s depiction of a black hole and neutron star merging featuring tidal disturbances. (Image credit: Visualization: T.Dietrich, N.Fischer, S.Ossokine, H.Pfeiffer, T. Vu; Simulation: V.Chaurasia, T. Dietrich)
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Nationalgeographic.co.id—After more than four years exploring the collection of cosmic events via gravitational waves, scientists have finally found the expected third type of collision.
The new taste of impact includes one black hole and one neutron star, making it kind of a mix.
Scientists have observed dozens of couple mergers black hole, and some pair merge neutron star. But the collision between black hole and neutron star has not been detected with certainty before.
Now, the researchers say that they have observed a unique ripple in space and time caused by the collision of the two.
“With the new invention of merging neutron star–black hole outside our galaxy, we’ve found a type of missing binary,” said Astrid Lamberts, CNRS researcher at the Obervatoire de la Côte d’Azur in France, in a statement. “We can finally begin to understand how many of these systems exist, how much often they join, and why we haven’t seen an example in Bima Sakti.”
“We’re finally starting to understand how many of these systems exist, how often they combine, and why we haven’t seen examples of these in the Bima Sakti.”
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