Gravitational Wave Event Likely Signaled Creation of a Black Hole

Client: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory
Date: 2018
Caption: A new study using Chandra data of GW170817 indicates that the event that produced gravitational waves likely created the lowest mass black hole known. Artist’s illustration shows a key part of the process that created this new black hole, as the two neutron stars spin around each other while merging. (The purple material depicts debris from the merger.)
Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
Link: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2018/gw170817/