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Bombing Volcanoes, Gold from Neutron Stars, Mind Wandering

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Dog's One O One Podcast

A pair of neutron stars would eventually collide in a super energetic merger. As the stars collide, heavy elements form from the matter within them. Neutron stars are also known to pair up with black holes and scientists have looked into these mergers as a possibility too. Scientists found that they often gobbled up the neutron star before heavy metals could even form. simulations suggest that neutron star mergers produce between two and 100 times more heavy metals as black hole neutron star pars.

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