"Unprecedented Gravitational Wave Discovery: Neutron Star Merges with Enigmatic Object"

Astronomers have detected a rare collision between a neutron star and a lightweight mystery object, possibly a surprisingly lightweight black hole, shedding light on the existence of objects in the "mass gap" between neutron stars and black holes. The signal was detected 650 million light-years from Earth by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, and the newfound object challenges previous assumptions about the mass gap. This discovery suggests a more complex evolution of heavy neutron stars and raises hopes for finding more mass-gap objects in the future.