GW7.jpg (IMAGE)

University of Portsmouth

GW7.jpg

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This image shows the merger of a lower mass-gap black hole (dark grey surface) with a neutron star with colours ranging from dark orange (1 million tons per cubic centimetre) to white (600 million tons per cubic centimetre). The gravitational wave signal is 2 represented with a set of strain amplitude values of plus-polarisation using colours from dark blue to cyan. 

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I. Markin (Potsdam University), T. Dietrich (Potsdam University and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics).

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