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Zooming in on a neutron-star merger jet

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Observations with a continent-wide array of radio telescopes show that the merger of two neutron stars, which produced gravitational waves, successfully launched a very fast and highly collimated jet.

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Fig. 1: The evolution of a highly collimated and relativistically expanding jet breaking out of the binary neutron-star merging system.

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