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Neutron star merger likely created smallest known black hole
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Saturday, 2 June, 2018
The merger of two fuel-exhausted neutron stars that generated gravitational waves detected last August likely gave birth to the lowest mass black hole ever found, a US-based study suggests. Data showed X-ray radiation levels were far lower than expected for a merged neutron star, implying a black hole formed instead having mass 2.7 times that of the Sun, said researchers.
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