Dance of the Heavyweights (IMAGE)
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Dance of the heavyweights: two neutron stars orbit each other, spiralling ever closer together, radiating gravitational waves in the process. Astrophysicists have long been theorizing that neutron stars, the cores of burnt-out, massive suns, could create gamma rays burst. The image of the real event GW170817 comes from a numerical-relativistic simulation.
Credit
Numerical Relativity Simulation: T. Dietrich (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) and the BAM collaboration; Scientific Visualization: T. Dietrich, S. Ossokine, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
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