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Violent Merger
Featured on September 14, 2018
Two neutron stars whirl together and merge to form a low-mass black hole in this artist's concept. Detectors on Earth detected gravitational waves produced by such a merger last year. The waves are "ripples" in space-time that travel across the universe. The collision also left a debris of newly minted chemical elements, including gold and silver. [NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet]
