Episode 377: 328 - Kilonova
- Author
- Fraser Cain
- Published
- Fri 20 Oct 2017
- Episode Link
- https://universetoday.fireside.fm/377
Astronomers have made the groundbreaking detection of two neutron stars colliding in a galaxy 130 million light years away. They detected the gravitational waves AND the blast of radiation released from the collision, observing a kilonova for the first time.
