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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Last year, astronomers observed two neutron stars collide—a crash transmitted in gravitational waves to detectors here on Earth. Represented in sound, you can hear a small upwards sweep in frequency, in the data, if you listen closely.
(CLIP: LIGO neutron star merger)
Several seconds later, the first waves of electromagnetic radiation arrived here on Earth — the first time a collision has been detected by both light and gravitational waves. And it's in studying the electromagnetic echoes of the collision that astrophysicists have gotten a far better glimpse of what really happened after those binary neutron stars merged, 130 million light-years away.
"Oh yeah, absolutely, so it gives us an understanding of basically all the nitty gritty of what's going on after the merger takes place." Kunal Mooley, an astrophysicist at Caltech.
First, he says, the stars collided (CLIP: Ligo merger)... creating a massive, black hole–like object, which started sucking up the cloud of neutron-rich cosmic debris left over from the crash. But its appetite was limited.
"It cannot eat all of it, so some bit of it basically escapes." Those escaping leftovers spewed outward into space, as a powerful jet. But along the way, Mooley says, the jet appears to have interacted with that cloud of neutron-rich material, blowing up a sort of cocoon within the debris floating around the collision. Until finally, the jet burst out and slammed into interstellar space... releasing yet more radiation we could detect here on Earth.
The full play by play is in the journal Nature.

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In this case, Mooley says, we were lucky to spot the event—the narrow jet was pointed close to Earth. But these collisions could be happening all the time, just that their jets point in directions hard to detect from our planet. But maybe, he says, astronomers can now look for those 'cocoons' as an alternate way to study these colossal bits of cosmic wreckage.
And while gravitational waves are exciting, "there's a lot more to be learned through electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves than that is to be learned through gravitational waves alone." When the LIGO gravitational wave detector fires up, early next year, he says, he'll be watching, waiting, perhaps, for his next study subject.
Thanks for listening for Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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alternate [ɔ:l'tə:nit,'ɔ:ltə:neit]

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adj. 交替的,轮流的,间隔的
v. 交替,

 
cosmic ['kɔzmik]

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adj. 宇宙的,广大无边的,无限的

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radiation [.reidi'eiʃən]

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n. 辐射,放射线

 
appetite ['æpitait]

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n. 嗜好,食欲,欲望

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collide [kə'laid]

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vi. 碰撞,互撞,砥触

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block [blɔk]

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n. 街区,木块,石块
n. 阻塞(物), 障

 
frequency ['fri:kwənsi]

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n. 频繁,频率

 
limited ['limitid]

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adj. 有限的,被限制的
动词limit的过

 
planet ['plænit]

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collision [kə'liʒən]

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