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Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black Hole
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Simulation frames from this NASA Goddard neutron star merger animation: <a href="http://bit.ly/1jolBYY" rel="nofollow">bit.ly/1jolBYY</a> Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star born with between eight and 30 times the sun's mass explodes as a supernova.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineNeutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black Hole. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001102.
