"Astronomers photographed a cosmic event this morning which they believe is the birth of a black hole, SPACE.com has learned.
"A faint visible-light flash likely heralds the merger of two dense neutron stars to create a relatively low-mass black hole, said Neil Gehrels of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. It is the first time an optical counterpart to a very short-duration gamma-ray burst has ever been detected."
Never having been Ms. Science Gal, I can’t explain or comment on this story of the birth of a black hole; but I thought it interesting. By the way, in looking up the story, I glanced at Space.com. If you or your kids are science buffs, it looks like an intriguing site.
Neat, Michelle. I love astronomical stuff. Space.com is an interesting site.
Mind blowing tidbit: Neutron star pairs (each about the size of a “city”) that are about to collide orbit one another 30+ times per second.
Neutron stars rock!