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Jonathan Scott
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Quite unexpectedly, it seems that the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor spotted what appears to be a hard gamma-ray burst about 0.4s after the LIGO GW event, lasting about 1s: http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03920
This is not expected from a black hole merger (and as a black hole sceptic, I find it very interesting).
There's also a new paper which suggests that perhaps this could be explained by the black hole merger occurring inside a star (which I find quite implausible, but which is generating a lot of news stories): http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04735
This is not expected from a black hole merger (and as a black hole sceptic, I find it very interesting).
There's also a new paper which suggests that perhaps this could be explained by the black hole merger occurring inside a star (which I find quite implausible, but which is generating a lot of news stories): http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04735