MassPlot Graveyard (IMAGE)

Northwestern University

MassPlot Graveyard

Caption

This graphic shows the masses for black holes detected through electromagnetic observations (purple), the black holes measured by gravitational-wave observations (blue), the neutron stars measured with electromagnetic observations (yellow), and the neutron stars detected through gravitational waves (orange). GW190814 is highlighted in the middle of the graphic as the merger of a black hole and a mystery object around 2.6 times the mass of the sun.

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LIGO-Virgo/ Frank Elavsky & Aaron Geller (Northwestern)

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