About half of neutrons stars live in couple, the other half are single. A good news for single neutron stars which are desperately seeking for a partner is that they might find one at any time, especially if they live in a globular cluster. However, most of neutron stars couples are born together, maybe not a the same time, but their parents were already close friends.
Neutron stars couples live happy and spend most of their time dancing together. They never rest, never stop, although everything should have an end...
For pure neutron star couples, for which both partners are neutron stars, the end of their love story is a gigantic event! They are so in love and they are merging both together, making a big firework for a few seconds, emitting huge gravitational waves that humans being try to record on Earth, and disappearing as a single black hole forever...
A short romantic story freely inspired by the talk of talk of F. Pannarale on "The dynamics of compact binary inspirals and mergers".
Maybe they are so tired that they hide behind the event-horizon black curtains to sleep...
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