The dance, alas, could not go on forever and the stars collided, releasing unimaginable energy and sending gravitational waves speeding through the fabric of space-time. Each was incredibly massive, with neutrons so closely packed that their cores became diamond. Both objects were the remnants of massive stars, probably from a binary system, that had become supernovae long before. In a remote galaxy, two neutron stars circled one another in a ballet of ultimate destruction and inevitable creation.
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