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Breakthrough! The detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star merger (Free Astronomy Public Lectures)

Free Astronomy Public Lectures by Swinburne Commons

Nov 26, 201800:54:56Education

Presented by Assoc. Prof. Tara Murphy on 23 November 2018. On August 17th 2017 the LIGO-Virgo interferometer detected gravitational waves from a neutron star merger in a galaxy 130 million light years away. This was a br...

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