Hacker News with Generative AI: Heavy Elements

New framework suggests stars dissolve into neutrons to forge heavy elements (phys.org)
Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of physics.
Astrophysics, Physics, Heavy Elements, Stars
4 points by PaulHoule 50 days ago | 0 comments
Gold could come from some of the most violent stars in the universe (zmescience.com)
A sudden blast of gamma rays that swept past Earth in December 2004 is helping solve one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: where the universe’s heaviest elements—like gold and platinum—come from.
Astrophysics, Universe, Heavy Elements, Gold, Gamma Rays
7 points by Brajeshwar 54 days ago | 0 comments
JWST shocks the world with colliding neutron star discovery (bigthink.com)
Where do the heaviest elements in the Universe come from? If you were like most astrophysicists during the 20th century, you might’ve said from supernova explosions: stellar cataclysms that occur either within the cores of massive stars or from stellar corpses (white dwarfs) that undergo destructive, energy-releasing events that trigger a rapid succession of nuclear fusion reactions.
Space, Astronomy, Neutron Stars, Heavy Elements
21 points by tempestn 149 days ago | 3 comments