Sentences with phrase «as the neutron stars spiraled»
As the neutron stars spiraled into each other, gravitational - wave detectors in the United States and Italy sensed ripples in space generated by the whirling bodies.
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Just as physicists had predicted, the unprecedented view of the cosmic cataclysm — in which two superdense neutron stars spiraled into each other — brought with it a cornucopia of insights, each of which by itself would count as a major scientific advance.
As gas spirals toward the neutron star, it spins faster and faster until some unknown trigger produces powerful, coherent radio beacons.
The system is called an X-ray binary because it emits X-rays as material from the companion star spirals onto the much denser neutron star and is heated to very high temperatures.
«Violent birth of neutron stars: Computer simulations confirm sloshing and spiral motions as stellar matter falls inward.»
As the original neutron stars orbit each other in their death spiral, they can accelerate up to about a third of the speed of light, says Edo Berger at Harvard University.
As the pair of neutron stars spiraled closer and closer together, they began to emit gravitational waves that were measurable for tens of seconds by LIGO's instruments before the inevitable cataclysm, starting at 8:41 a.m. eastern daylight time (5:41 a.m. Pacific daylight time).