An artist’s impression of two neutron stars colliding and how they would appear as they merge, ejecting matter and gamma rays. – Image by NSF, LIGO, Sonoma State University, A. Simonnet

An artist’s impression of two neutron stars colliding and how they would appear as they merge, ejecting matter and gamma rays. - Image by NSF, LIGO, Sonoma State University, A. Simonnet

An artist’s impression of two neutron stars colliding and how they would appear as they merge, ejecting matter and gamma rays.

Image by NSF, LIGO, Sonoma State University, A. Simonnet