All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 January Crunching the numbers on neutron star collision Crunching the numbers on neutron star collision 07/01/2020 | 4 MINS Scientists at LIT have contributed to a new study with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) revealing a possible collision of two neutron stars 3.4 times heavier than the sun. The gravitational-wave observatory network, including the National Science Foundation's LIGO and the European Virgo detectors, picked up what appeared to be gravitational ripples from a collision of two neutron stars on 25 April 2019, the second time this type of cosmic event has ever been detected. Neutron stars are the remnants of dead stars that exploded. When two neutron stars spiral together, they undergo a violent merger that sends gravitational waves shuddering through the fabric of space and time. Gravitational waves and light were first witnessed in the same event in 2017 and was named GW170817. LIT and ARC DECRA Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Eric Howell said the detection is a significant achievement. "U
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 January Crunching the numbers on neutron star collision Crunching the numbers on neutron star collision 07/01/2020 | 4 MINS Scientists at LIT have contributed to a new study with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) revealing a possible collision of two neutron stars 3.4 times heavier than the sun.
The gravitational-wave observatory network, including the National Science Foundation's LIGO and the European Virgo detectors, picked up what appeared to be gravitational ripples from a collision of two neutron stars on 25 April 2019, the second time this type of cosmic event has ever been detected.
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When two neutron stars spiral together, they undergo a violent merger that sends gravitational waves shuddering through the fabric of space and time.
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Gravitational waves and light were first witnessed in the same event in 2017 and was named GW170817.
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LIT and ARC DECRA Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Eric Howell said the detection is a significant achievement.
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