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Black hole swallows neutron star in record quick gulp
Astronomers captured the first collision of a black hole with a neutron star. The event produced powerful gravitational waves from over a billion light years away, as two dense cosmic objects merged in under a minute. Study authors note the feeding will help estimate how common such pairs are.
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Patrick Brady
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Albert Einstein
Astrophysical Journal Letters
Brady
Johns Hopkins University
Marc Kamienkowski
Carl Knox