Mike Sivertz / Paul Stankus - black hole-strange quark star merger / blinking star

Wednesday 16 Jun 2021, 12:00 → 13:00 US/Eastern

ID: 161 484 0599 (Zoom)

Speculation that the GW190814 event could be a black hole-strange quark star merger.

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-source-gw190814-event-black-hole-strange.html

PRL article and equivalent arXiv article

and an introduction to strange stars (text in Portuguese)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02976

For the blinking star:

CNN story

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05300