Science News | See a black hole swallow a neutron star in this simulation | Science News @ScienceNewsMag | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
In a newly reported class of cosmic smashup, a neutron star (apparent in orange in this computer simulation, after the video zooms in) and black hole (dark gray) spiral inward, producing gravitational waves (blue) in a dance that ends when the black hole swallows the neutron star.

Read more: sciencenews.org/article/gravitational-waves-ligo-first-black-hole-neutron-star-merger

Video: S.V. Chaurasia/Stockholm Univ., T. Dietrich/Potsdam Univ. and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, N. Fischer, S. Ossokine and H. Pfeiffer/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics