Astronomy / Space Scientists Marvel at Collision Between Black Hole and Possible Neutron Star

[Manticore]

More than 30 scientists from The University of Western Australia’s node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) are part of an international team that for the first time may have witnessed the end of a neutron star as it was engulfed by a black hole.

On 14 August Australian and international researchers from the LIGO (US) and Virgo (Italy) gravitational wave observatories detected the tickles in the cosmos triggered by this event, which was immediately reported on a public database available to the world’s astronomers.

Scientists marvel at collision between black hole and possible neutron star

More than 30 scientists from The University of Western Australia’s node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) are part of an international team that for the first time may have witnessed the end of a neutron star as it was engulfed by a black hole.

www.news.uwa.edu.au

 

[Patrick_68000]

It would be fabulous to be able to really watch such a spectacle by being physically "close" to the event in the space.

 

[Chris Simon]

It would be fabulous to be able to really watch such a spectacle by being physically "close" to the event in the space.

Well, minus the gamma bursts and alpha particles frying everything around, I guess.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Well, minus the gamma bursts and alpha particles frying everything around, I guess.

Not particularly.

I think when we saw this, we can die in peace in the heart of the action.

 

[Chris Simon]

Not particularly.

I think when we saw this, we can die in peace in the heart of the action.

"An experience of a lifetime"
"Nothing you'll ever see after this will beat the view"

 

[Patrick_68000]

"An experience of a lifetime"
"Nothing you'll ever see after this will beat the view"

Yes ! And I even wonder if overwhelmed by the emotion, a heart attack could be the cause of our death.