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Astronomy and space

Merging neutron stars create more gold than collisions involving black holes

17 Nov 2021
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Biggish bang: artist's impression of a neutron-star merger (Courtesy: NASA)
The amounts of heavy elements such as gold created when black holes merge with neutron stars have be

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