Imagine yourself sitting in the cinema, with a bag of popcorn, ready to see a cosmic spectacle uncommon. The main actors? A neutron star and a mysterious object who dance in the sidereal darkness, ready to join in a final ballet that has sent astronomers all over the world into raptures. It's as if the universe decided to give us one of the most fascinating shows we've ever seen, and we were lucky enough to capture it!
The scientists of the project LIGO/VIRGO/KAGRAwhich looks like something straight out of a science fiction movie, recently revealed that they had detected some gravitational wavessignals that come from a truly unique event: the merger of a neutron star with an object so strange that scientists are not even aware safe Of What is. Could it be a black hole? Perhaps. But not just any one, but rather one that falls within what experts call the “prohibited mass zone”. This area is like a kind of land of Nobodywhere objects of a certain mass should not be found, nevertheless…
Gravitational waves reveal cosmic secrets
Here's what they have discovery scientists: one of the objects that merged had a mass between 1.2 and 2 times that of our sun, making it most likely a star of neutrons. The other? Well, it was in the infamous forbidden mass zone, with a mass between 2.5 and 4.5 times that of the sun. This discovery not only makes us reconsider everything we thought we knew about neutron stars and black holes, but might Also change the way we understand the explosions supernova and spectaculars cosmic fireworks that happen when a black hole tears a neutron star apart.
Discover the merger between a neutron star and a mysterious object cosmic that is challenging ours comprehension of the universe. An adventure between holes blackneutron stars and gravitational waves!
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