Massive Merger: Black Hole and Neutron Star (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Massive Merger: Black Hole and Neutron Star

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This image, from a computerized simulation, shows the formation of an inner disk of matter and a wide, hot disk of matter 5.5 milliseconds after the merger of a neutron star and a black hole.

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Classical and Quantum Gravity

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