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When two neutron stars collide

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Professor Susan Scott of the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering, and CAASTRO Node Leader Christian Wolf of the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, explain and discuss the detection of the merger of neutron stars using gravitational wave detectors, and the subsequent discovery of light, gamma and radio waves from the event.