Flatiron Institute Hosts National Science Foundation Workshop on the Plasma Physics of Neutron Star Mergers
Simons Foundation, October 2018On August 17, 2017, scientists witnessed one of the most dramatic collisions in the universe. Two dense neutron stars had combined in a galaxy 130 million light-years away, generating ripples through space-time and emitting bursts of light. The observations of the event sparked scientific breakthroughs across many areas of cosmology, but many questions linger.