For the First Time, Astronomers Have Linked a Mysterious Fast Radio Burst With Gravitational Waves

A team of scientists has just published evidence in Nature Astronomy for what might be producing mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from distant galaxies, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs. Two colliding neutron stars--each the super-dense core of an exploded star--produced a burst of gravitational waves when they merged into a "supramassive" neutron […]