Scientists confirm that two neutron stars merging into each other do not only generate gravitational waves. They also emit short gamma-ray bursts.
In 2017, an international collaboration of astronomers announced that they detected gamma-ray flashes associated with the coalescence of two neutron stars. The announcement was exactly what the Oregon team predicted a few months earlier.
In a new paper published in the Physical Review Letters, astrophysicists at the Oregon State University explore the connections that link gamma rays to neutron star mergers and gravitational waves.
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