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- Astronomy
What the Rumored Neutron Star Merger Might Teach Us
- By Dan Garisto
- August 29, 2017
In a sense, neutron star mergers are the largest hadron colliders ever conceived.Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . This month, before LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, and its European counterpart Virgo, were going to close down for a […]
- Physics
The Astrophysicists Who Faked It
- By Jonah Kanner & Alan Weinstein
- October 27, 2016
The inside story of the gravitational wave signal injection.
- Physics
The Most Massive Object in the Universe—How Was It Created?
- By Matthew Francis
- February 24, 2014
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The galaxy known prosaically as M87 doesn’t look like much. Unlike beautiful spiral galaxies (including the Milky Way), M87 appears as an orangish blob of stars through telescopes. Its only noticeable feature is the long streamer of gas emanating from the galactic […]