O4 – Detections – GW190814 The discovery of a merger event that sparked off a debate!

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#GWGreatestHits The discovery of the merger event GW190814 by LIGO and Virgo detectors sparked off a debate. The detected gravitational waves came from the inspiral and merger of a black hole and a mystery compact object. Was the lighter component of the binary the lightest black hole or the heaviest neutron star?

Click here to read more about the discovery here, including the contribution from Indian scientists