The first detection of electromagnetic emission from a gravitational wave source bridges the gap between one of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe and their dark, difficult to detect progenitors.
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Pritchard, T. How to light up a black hole. Nat Astron 1, 748–750 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0311-1
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