“The universe is keeping us on our toes,” says physicist Patrick Brady, spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based Virgo detector registered gravitational waves from what appears likely to be a crash between two neutron stars—the dense remnants of massive stars that previously exploded.
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