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    LIGO and Virgo find possible black hole–neutron star crash

    Jul 10, 2019 2 minutes
    • MONICA YOUNG

    ONLY TWO MONTHS INTO a new observing run, gravitational-wave observatories have announced 13 new candidate signals — one of which could turn out to be a black hole swallowing a neutron star.

    Major improvements to both the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and

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