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The collision was more than one billion light-years away.
By SETH BORENSTEINAssociated Press
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This illustration depicts a black hole, center, swallowing a neutron star, upper left. The blue lines are gravitational waves, ripples in time and space, which is how astronomers detected the merger, and orange and red areas indicate parts of the neutron star being stripped away. Carl Knox/OzGrav/Swinburne University Australia via AP
Talk about a heavy snack. For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the most dense object in the universe – all in a split-second gulp.
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