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GW170817: Gravitational Wave Event Likely Signaled Creation of a Black Hole
A gravitational wave source located in the NGC 4993 galaxy about 130 million light years from Earth.
Read the article, rate the image, and send in your comments at:
http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2018/gw170817/
** E0102-72.3: Astronomers Spot a Distant and Lonely Neutron Star
The debris from an exploded star about 200,000 light years from Earth.
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Chandra Press: Gravitational Wave Event Likely Signaled Creation of a Black Hole
The spectacular merger of two neutron stars that generated gravitational
waves announced last fall likely did something else: birthed a black
hole. This newly spawned black hole would be the lowest mass black hole
ever found.
http://chandra.si.edu/press/18_releases/press_053118.html
**Chandra
Blog: Astronomers Spot a Distant and Lonely Neutron Star
Astronomers have discovered a special kind of neutron star
for the first time outside of the Milky Way galaxy, using data from
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's
Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.
http://chandra.si.edu/blog/node/681
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