Stellar Graveyard (IMAGE)

Northwestern University

Stellar Graveyard

Caption

A collection of masses for a wide range of compact objects. The graphic shows black holes (blue), neutron stars (orange) and compact objects of uncertain nature (gray) detected through gravitational waves. Each compact binary merger corresponds to three compact objects: the two coalescing objects and the final merger remnant.

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Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern University and Frank Elavsky, LIGO-Virgo

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