LIGO & VIRGO have detected the collision of a black hole with a mystery object?

Recently, a distant collision between a black hole and a mystery object was revealed. At first glance, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo interferometer, detected waves from this collision in August 2019. Here is everything you need to kw about this bizarre collision.

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Black Hole collision with an unkwn object

LIGO, which is a large scale physics observatory located in Washington claimed at time, that collision was between a black hole and a neutron star. But gravitational waves emanating from collision paints a different picture. A neutron star is a collapsed core of a giant star.

As per reports by a science portal, black hole appears to be 23 times as massive as sun but it has crashed into a compact object of about 2.6 solar masses. This throws neutron star prediction into doldrums, as re is a 2.5-solar-mass cap for an object to be considered as a neutron star. Hence, fact that this mystery object colliding with black hole is most likely t a neutron star.

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Is mystery object a black hole?

mystery object has a mass of 2.6 solar masses. Hence, smaller than most of lightweight black holes ever observed by us. smallest black hole ever observed is five solar masses. Cole Miller who is an Astrophysicist from University of Maryland mentioned in an interview given to a science portal that, mystery object is eir heaviest kwn neutron star or we have lightest kwn black hole.

After LIGO, and its sister observatory in Italy, Virgo, detected black hole’s collision with unkwn object dozens of or ground-based and telescopes rummd sky for light riating from crash site. However, y found thing. As per reports of a rewned science portal, a researcher revealed that if in future collisions, mid-size objects tend to be between about 2.5 and three solar masses.

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This means that astromers have uncovered a heavier variety of neutron star which have t been kwn or seen in past. However, this may also mean that re is a population of previously overlooked, petite black holes in . This discovery has opened many new doors and brought to surface many questions that weren't being asked before about black holes and neutron stars.

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Generally, black holes team up with partners of similar mass and density. Hence, most mergers detected by LIGO and Virgo involve almost equally matched black holes. Strangely,  larger black hole involved in this merger was about nine times as massive as its collision counterpart. Astromers are still seeking an answer to question that what could have brought such an uncanny couple toger.