Astronomers Detect First-Ever Mystery Object in The 'Mass Gap' of Cosmic Collisions

In August of last year, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations made a first-of-its-kind gravitational wave detection – what seemed to be a black hole swallowing up a neutron star. Now LIGO has confirmed the event, giving it the name GW190814. And it looks like the neutron star was not actually… a neutron star. That would […]

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