LIGO is on the lookout for these 8 sources of gravitational waves

Astronomers still hope to catch a star going supernova and a bumpy neutron star, among others

BANG, CRASH  Physicists using the LIGO and Virgo observatories are catching all sorts of cosmic collisions, including of pairs of neutron stars (illustrated). But scientists hope to bag even more exotic quarry.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

Seekers of gravitational waves are on a cosmic scavenger hunt.