The two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory (LIGO), in Hanford (WA) and Livingston (LA), and the Virgo detector, near Pisa, Italy, have detected gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars for the first time. (news.wsu.edu)
Rumours are swirling of a new kind of gravitational wave, created by colliding neutrons stars, rather than black holes. (newscientist.com)
Unlike black holes, which hide their mass behind an event horizon even as they crash, colliding neutron stars spew hot, bright matter across space. (newscientist.com)