Using gravitational waves, tiny ripples in space-time first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, astronomers have discovered that a “stellar graveyard” is packed with mergers between extreme stellar remnants like black holes and neutron stars, created when massive stars die in supernova explosions. Evidence of these mergers also came in the form of the most massive binary black holes …
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