The cosmos has delivered a rare kind of fireworks display, and astronomers are racing to understand what it means. A strange double flash from a distant galaxy appears to show two neutron stars ...
In the final moments before two neutron stars collide, their magnetic fields spiral into chaos, twisting and snapping as they unleash high-energy radiation into space. Using a NASA supercomputer, ...
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