Gravitational Waves from Second Neutron-star Collision Observed
Scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo collaborations have announced the detection of a second pair of neutron stars that went bump in the night. The announcement was made at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu and the results will appear in an upcoming issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The merger is the first bona fide event of the LIGO detector’s third observing run (the second observing run to be conducted with the company of the Virgo detector in Italy).