Remnant of a binary neutron star system: after merger the mass of the remaining star is too high and it collapses to a black hole, leaving a fast-rotating low-density disk around the black hole.
Credit: Scientific evolution and visualization by Frank Löffler, background image by Todd Vance. License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic
Frank Löffler
Computer Scientist and Physicist
Heinz-Nixdorf Endowed Chair for Distributed Information Systems
Department for Mathematics and Computer Science
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
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Center for Computation & Technology
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Louisiana State University
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