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Scientists have confirmed the detection of a ripple in spacetime created when two hyperdense objects, called neutron stars, collided 520 million light years from Earth. Together, the two neutron stars are about 3.4 times more massive than the Sun, making this system the biggest pair of neutron stars ever detected…

One morning I woke up to see the front page of every newspaper across the world covered with pictures of what looked like a big orange doughnut. What could this represent? I learned that the doughnut picture was rendered by combining images taken from telesco…