Wish upon a star
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News that two collisions between a neutron star and a black hole have been recorded within ten days of each other, is accompanied by an artist's impression of what such an event might look like.
It is undoubtedly pretty, but ultimately fanciful and pointless, since it's just an imagining.
The BBC's science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, explores the scientific implications of these findings. But he doesn't cover the greater existential implication, that two such occurrences within such a short period of time might herald the end of the universe.
Now's the time for all those doomsday preppers to hunker down and don their tinfoil hats. This is what they've been waiting for. The end of days is nigh.
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