What happened to the GW170817 neutron stars after the merger?
Short-lived hypermassive neutron star could have been formed
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What gravitational waves did (and didn’t) tell us about GW170817
Observation over 100 s provides a wealth of knowledge
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Neutron star merger as it happened
Minute-by-minute account of how more than 70 telescopes focused on GW170817
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Spectacular collision of two neutron stars observed for first time
LIGO and Virgo collaboration and dozens of telescopes see gravitational waves and gamma rays from stupendous event, triggering new era in "multimessenger astronomy”
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How does LIGO detect gravitational waves?
Using quantum mechanics to measure distances on the attometre scale
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Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne win 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics
Trio win for their work on gravitational waves
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Black-hole growth accelerated by supersonic gas
Did early supermassive objects get a boost from the early universe?
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Virgo bags its first gravitational waves
Third detector helps pinpoint astronomical sources as fourth black-hole merger is detected
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Binary supermassive black hole system spotted in Seyfert galaxy
Observation backs up model of Z-shaped radio sources
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Medium-sized black hole seen lurking in the Milky Way
Object 100,000 times more massive than the Sun could have arrived in a dwarf galaxy
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