A third gravitational-wave signal has been detected with confidence, produced again by the merger of two black holes. The combined data from these detections help to reveal the histories of the stars that left these black holes behind.
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Mandel, I., Farmer, A. Stellar palaeontology. Nature 547, 284–285 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/547284a
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