Happy Birthday, GW170817! Six years ago today, @LIGO and Virgo observed gravitational waves from merging neutron stars for the first time, and many other telescopes observed the electromagnetic radiation produced by the event.

Our press release about the event: https://www.aei.mpg.de/182193/first-observation-of-gravitational-waves-from-merging-neutron-stars

Numerical simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6cm-0bwJ98

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What happens in neutron star mergers? Complex numerical simulation sheds light on an extreme cosmic process. It took the Japanese supercomputer “Fugaku” 200 days to compute the new model.

➡️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1053548/understanding-neutron-star-mergers
📃https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.011401 (open access publication)

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