This computer simulation shows two neutron stars of unequal mass spiraling toward one another. When they merge, they collapse into a black hole. The lighter star gets ripped apart, and its guts form a disk of matter that surrounds the celestial body. The disk and black hole’s rotation results in a huge magnetic field that launches a bidirectional jet of high energy matter along the rotational axis.
Video Credit: K. Hayashi/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
Credit to : Science News
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