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Scientists discover neutron star mergers a primary source of cosmic heavy metals

An artist’s depiction of Earth among the cosmic chaos of a collision between neutron stars.
Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet, edited by MIT News
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