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All in the family: Kin of gravitational wave source discovered

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According to new research, an object named GRB150101B — first reported as a gamma-ray burst in 2015 — shares remarkable similarities with GW170817, the neutron star merger discovered by LIGO and observed by multiple light-gathering telescopes in 2017. The new analysis suggests that these two separate objects may in fact be directly related.