Cosmic Exploration · discovery
A Neutron Star Merger, Seen and Heard
2017 · Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss
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- 2017
Description
GW170817 arrived as gravitational waves and, 1.7 seconds later, as a gamma-ray burst — then in every other band as seventy observatories turned to look. The debris was measurably manufacturing gold.
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