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Stars Dissolve into Neutrons to Form Heavy Elements, Study Suggests


High-energy photons produced deep in gamma-ray burst jets emerging from a collapsed star could dissolve the outer stellar layers into free neutrons, causing a series of physical processes that results in the formation of heavy elements.

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