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Non-scientist here, is this a Nobel Prize caliber discovery? Just trying to get some perspective here. It sounds exciting.


Basically they've made the first direct observations of what causes a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst

I expect there will be a Nobel, not immediately but after years of accumulating statistics on many different GRBs.


Quite possibly I think. This is both confirmation that neutron star mergers do indeed exist and create kilonova, and the first detection of an astronomical event with both gravitational waves and light. Nobel prize is only limited to three people though, so it's unclear who they would give it to, given there are thousands of people that contributed to this.



If this year's Nobel Prize hadn't been for a Gravitational Wave discovery, I'd said "yes" without hesitation. Now I'm not sure.


Yes.




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