Violent Neutron Star Collision Discovered Near Earth’s Birthplace

“How invigorating it was to glimpse a cosmic puzzle touching us all! How thrilling is the expanding global quest investigating all flavors of dead and exploding stars to probe our shared origins,” Columbia University astrophysicist Szabolcs Marka wrote in an email to The Daily Galaxy. In 2019, Marka and collaborators determined that a violent collision of two neutron stars 4.0 billion years ago, approximately 80 million years before the formation of the Solar System, was the likely source of some of the most coveted matter on Earth.

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