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Artistic representation of the merger of two neutron stars. The neutron stars emit gravitational waves, inspiralling together. After they merge, they emit large jets (a gamma-ray burst) and a fireball of ejected material (a kilnova)

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  1. LIGO (ligo@astrodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 16:09:47 UTC LIGO LIGO

    Happy birthday to #GW170817 our first binary neutron star detection, and the first #GravitationalWave with electromagnetic counterparts!

    The gamma-ray burst following the merger was spotted by the Fermi and Integral telescopes and later many other telescopes

    https://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-GW170817BNS/index.php

    #Astrodon

    In conversation about 3 months ago from astrodon.social permalink
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