The headline looked like something taken from Greg Egan's Diaspora, but what happened there was far closer and with just neutron stars. Anyway, it was pretty dr

The headline looked like something taken from Greg Egan's Diaspora, but what happened there was far closer and with just neutron stars. Anyway, it was pretty dramatic for the not-so-nearby solar systems, I wonder what means an event like this for good part of the galaxy where it happens.