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Robert Lea

Watch dead neutron stars smash together in new NASA supercomputer simulation

An illustration showing two neutron stars meeting and merging.

A new simulation created using a NASA supercomputer has shown how things get messy for merging neutron stars even before they slam together; their magnetospheres, the most powerful magnetic fields in the known universe, entwine and generate chaos.

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