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    HADES Experiment simulates Colliding and Merging Neutron Stars

    August 25, 2019, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Illustration of two merging neutron stars. Gravitational waves travel out from the collision, seconds later a burst of gamma rays is shot out. The merging stars eject swirling clouds of material.
    Illustration of two merging neutron stars. Gravitational waves travel out from the collision, seconds later a burst of gamma rays is shot out. The merging stars eject swirling clouds of material.Image: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet

    Temperatures of 800 billion degrees in the cosmic kitchen. It is among the most spectacular events in the universe: a merger of neutron stars. An international team of researchers with strong representation from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has completed the first laboratory measurements of thermal electromagnetic radiation arising in such collisions. The resulting data enabled them to calculate the prevailing temperature when such stars merge.

    When two neutron stars collide, the matter at their core en...

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