Scientists first observed as two-faced stars and formed the gold

Scientists first observed as two-faced stars and formed the gold

Monday, 16 October, an international team of astrophysics observatories LIGO and Virgo announced the discovery of a unique phenomenon — the merger of two neutron stars. The discovery gave scientists the answers to many questions, including showed how there was gold and other heavy metals, according to ABC News.

It all began in the galaxy NGC 4993, when there is a clash of two neutron stars.
Clash of stars was accompanied by the release of enormous energy in the form of gravitational waves and gamma-rays.
Radiation, after the distance of 130 million light years (one light year is equal to 5.88 trillion miles), reached Earth on August 17, 2017.
Previously, scientists of astrophysics, received this year’s Nobel prize for his discovery registered at the Observatory LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave from the explosion. Then the gamma rays intercepted telescope NASA «Fermi».
And then it started the «academic planner»: astronomers from all over the Earth received a warning from LIGO/Virgo and set up your telescopes, registered electromagnetic radiation, to specific coordinates.
How to tell the scientists faced the stars radiated a bright blue light, in addition, they formed a super-hot material ejected from the impact zone far into space. This material and «going to» in heavy elements such as gold, platinum and uranium.

Is a result of these collisions and formed half of all heavy metals in the Universe, reports CNN explanation Vicky Kalogera, an astrophysicist leading an international team of direct relevance to the discovery of gravitational waves.

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