Here's a term in astronomy that you may not have heard of before- "kilanova". Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has obtained observations of a fireball formed when two massive compact objects merge in a huge explosion that gives off gravitational waves and a major burst of radiation that we see as a "Gamma Ray Burst".
Read More About It: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/03aug_kilonova/
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