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Stars and solar physics

Stars and solar physics

How LIGO’s merging black holes formed from two massive stars

23 Jun 2016 Hamish Johnston
Artistic impression of a binary star system
Binary giants: the GW150914 story begins with two massive stars. (Courtesy: David Ducros/Science Photo Library)
Physicists in Poland and the US have carried out computer simulations that shed light on the events

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