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A neutron-star crash spotted 3 years ago is still pumping out X-rays. But why?

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two neutron stars collided in a cataclysmic crash, the first such merger ever observed directly. Naturally, scientists kept their eye on it — and now, something strange is happening.

Astrophysicists observed the star collision on Aug. 17, 2017, spotting for the first time ever signs of the same event in both a gravitational-wave chirp detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) on Earth and a massive burst of different flavors of light.

The X-rays observed at the location 130 million light-years from Earth peaked less than six months after the merger's discovery, then began to fade.

But in observations gathered this year, that trend has stopped, and an X-ray signal is unexpectedly lingering, according to.

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