Astronomers may have found a black hole devouring a neutron star

Astronomers believe they've detected a gravitational wave coming from a new first-time discovery: a black hole swallowing a neutron star. The data from LIGO suggests a black hole fives times the mass of the sun is consuming a neutron star half its size.

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