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It’s a pretty fundamental question in terms of the origin of complex matter in the universe,” Anirudh Patel said in a NASA ...

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Scientists have long believed that gold and other heavy elements were created solely through neutron star collisions. However ...

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Astronomers confirmed in 2017 that neutron star mergers can create gold, platinum, and other heavy elements, based on ...