When two neutron stars collide, they produce a gravitational wave signature. In 2017, one of these events occurred and LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave observatories detected that. And then the astronomers pointed their telescopes in that direction to see what we call the electromagnetic counterpart. So there was something seen in the sky that faded over the course of two weeks.

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