A mysterious astronomical object merged with a black hole 780 million light-years away and created gravitational waves that could be detected on Earth
. The object exists inside what scientists call the"mass gap," a range between the heaviest known neutron star and the lightest known black hole. And it could change how astronomers understand black holes.
In August 2019, astronomers using gravitational wave detectors in the US and Italy detected ripples in space and time, a gravitational wave event they dubbed GW190814. Given the fact that this occurred so far from Earth, the event occurred 780 million years ago, but the gravitational waves are just now reaching us.A collision of neutron stars created a fireworks element in spaceThe merger occurred between an object that was 2.
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