Astronomers detect what may be a black hole eating a neutron star

摘要

Shudders in the cosmos have revealed what's likely the sad end of a neutron star -getting swallowed by a black hole. If confirmed, it would be the first solid detection of this source of gravitational waves, revealing a type of cataclysm never before spotted. Researchers from the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, LIGO, and the Virgo observatory reported the detection August 14 in a public astronomical database.