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Merging neutron stars create more gold than collisions involving black holes – Physics World – physicsworld.com
Study suggests that kilonova events are more effective at r-process nucleosynthesis

Biggish bang: artist’s impression of a neutron-star merger (Courtesy: NASA)
The amounts of heavy elements such as gold created when black holes merge with neutron stars have been calculated and compared with the amounts expected when pairs of neutron stars…
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