
#71Physics & AstronomyFront Page18 March 2026
The Silent Dance of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
A new theoretical model suggests that the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can crush an orbiting neutron star into a soup of free quarks. This sudden internal collapse creates a measurable 'stutter' in the gravitational waves emitted during the star's final moments.
By Wu, Luo, Shi