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Scientists have long been confused about where exactly gold comes from. While neutron star mergers are a plausible origin story for most of the gold in our universe, we have known for some while that the numbers don’t add up. Now, though, astrophysicists say they know how the remaining gold was created. Let’s take a look.

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