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Physicists confirm two cases of “elusive” black hole/neutron star mergers

The successful gravitational-wave detections just keep coming for the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, which has now confirmed two separate “mixed” mergers between black holes and neutron stars, sending powerful gravitational waves rippling across spacetime. Those signals were detected last year by the collaboration, just 10 days apart. A year and a half later, the events officially constitute […]

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Lone high-energy neutrino likely came from shredded star in distant galaxy

Enlarge / The remains of a shredded star formed an accretion disk around the black hole whose powerful tidal forces ripped it apart. This created a cosmic particle accelerator spewing out fast subatomic particles. (credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab) Roughly 700 million years ago, a tiny subatomic particle was born in a galaxy far, far […]