Discovery of neutron star collision is ‘breakthrough’ of 2017

On: December 21, 2017

The world’s first-ever detection of two faraway neutron stars colliding, causing a massive blast that rippled through the fabric of space and time, was judged the scientific breakthrough of 2017, the journal Science said Thursday.

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