The gold of our jewelry comes from far, in time and space, of phenomena giving off phenomenal energy, like the shock between two very dense celestial bodies. “” “Historically, scientists applied that the heaviest elements were produced during the collision between two neutron stars”, Details the site Earth.com. It was not until 2017 that such an event was observed, and the quantity of gold created on this occasion corresponded to several times the mass of the earth, says The Washington Post.
Scientists had therefore proven that there was a gold factory of the universe, and highlighted how it was going.
A new gold mine
But today, researchers, whose study has appeared in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, have just unveiled another gold source. The heaviest elements of the cosmos, among which we find gold and platinum, are also produced during emissions of X -ray and very intense gamma rays (the giant flares) by magnetars. These are stars in neutr
