A mysterious black sponge shimmers subtly under scattered gold glitter, creating an enchanting contrast of darkness and sparkle. This playful fusion evokes a sense of hidden elegance and unexpected ...

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos ... the formation of the heaviest elements, such as gold, requires copious amounts of neutrons that atomic nuclei ...

Not only do magnetars produce valuable metals like gold and silver that end up on Earth, the supernova explosions that cause them also produce elements like oxygen, carbon and iron that are vital ...

Previously, long-standing hypotheses suggested that supernova explosions or neutron star collisions were the main sources of gold and other heavy elements in the universe. In 2017, astronomers ...