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LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA finds elusive mergers of black holes with neutron stars
By Jess McIver on June 29, 2021
For the first time, researchers have confirmed the detection of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star. In fact, the scientists – including those at the University of British Columbia – detected not one but two such events occurring just ten days apart in January 2020. The extreme events made splashes in […]