When Neutron Stars Collide (IMAGE)

Princeton University

When Neutron Stars Collide

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This snapshot of the first milliseconds in the violent merger of two neutron stars, calculated and rendered by associate research scholar David Radice and collaborators, reveals the stars' gravitational tidal effects on each other. In the next 10 milliseconds, they will merge into one rapidly rotating massive neutron star, then collapse into a black hole surrounded by a transient disk of material.

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Courtesy of David Radice and collaborators/Princeton/TEAMS

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