This animation captures phenomena observed over the course of nine days following the neutron star merger known as GW170817. They include gravitational waves (pale arcs), a near-light-speed jet that produced gamma rays (magenta), expanding debris from a kilonova that produced ultraviolet (violet), optical and infrared (blue-white to red) emission, and, once the jet directed toward us expanded into our view from Earth, X-rays (blue).

For the first time, NASA scientists have detected light tied to a gravitational-wave event, thanks to two merging neutron stars in the galaxy NGC 4993, located about 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra.

《周易》：「易有太極，是生兩儀。兩儀生四象，四象生八卦。」

《道德經》第四十二章，是老子的宇宙生成論：「道生一，一生二，二生三，三生萬物。萬物負陰而抱陽，沖氣以爲和。」

以下是美国宇航局科学家在银河系中子星合并产生的引力波中首次捕获到的第一束光——位于距离地球1亿3000万光年之前的长蛇座星系团。

难以置信的是，持续9天的中子星合并过程中观察到的现象与中国古代对道、太极和两仪的神秘思考高度相像。

人类从没停止过对宇宙的探索和想象，在某些时候，科学和玄学高度重叠。

接下来，欣赏这个令人兴奋又不可思议的片段吧。

Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

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