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“With this new discovery of neutron star-black hole mergers outside our galaxy, we have found the missing type of binary,” Astrid Lamberts, a researcher at Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, in Nice, France, said in a statement. “We can finally begin to understand how many of these systems exist, how often they merge, and why we have not yet seen examples in the Milky Way.”