China-US astronomy team may have found possible relic of a recent ‘gold factory’
Mystery glow seen in the Milky Way could be the result of a violent collision between two orbiting neutron stars, according to scientists
The violent smash spewed out atoms and a flood of neutrons, which the atoms soaked up to form some of the universe’s heaviest elements, such as gold, platinum and uranium, while the wreckage collapsed into a black hole.
The blast probably happened less than 1,000 years ago, as the glowing cloud it left behind is still small and bright, signs of a young remnant, wrote the researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
