Yesterday, for just the second time ever, LIGO detected gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger, sending astronomers searching for light signals from a potential kilonova, or an object 1,000 times brighter than normal novas

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Yesterday, for just the second time ever, LIGO detected gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger, sending astronomers searching for light signals from a potential kilonova, or an object 1,000 times brighter than normal novas