Black holes and neutron stars merge! 1st ever detection simulated

For the first time, an international team of astrophysicists have discovered a pair of black holes merging with their companion neutron stars. See simulations of the event. Full Story: https://www.space.com/first-black-hole-neutron-star-mergers-detected

Simulations credit: T. Dietrich (Potsdam University and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), N. Fischer, S. Ossokine, H. Pfeiffer (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics). Numerical-relativity simulation: S.V. Chaurasia (Stockholm University), T. Dietrich (Potsdam University and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) | Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech) and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt)

Edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta (http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)