Atronomers & astrophysicists once again are excited; this time at the discovery of what appears to be two super dense neutron stars colliding. Such collsions may also create Black Holes
Dr Edo Berger’s and his team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics studied the radiation and spectra emating from GRB (gamma ray burst) designated GRB 130603B which was detected by NASA’s Swift satellite on June 3, 2013. This GRB lies at a distance of 3.9 billion light-years from Earth and is one of the nearest GRB events seen to date.
GRB 130603B observations provide evidence that it resulted from the collision of two neutron stars. Moreover, a unique glow that persisted for days at the GRB location potentially signifies the creation of substantial amounts of heavy elements, including gold.
The amount of gold created in this event could be perhaps 10 times the moon’s mass in gold, Berger said. The gold out there could be worth around $10 octillion. (That’s $100 trillion squared). A cool piece of ‘Black Hole’ bling 😉
The scientists have calculated that about one-hundredth of a solar mass of material was ejected by the gamma-ray burst, some of which was gold.
All the gold on earth and in the cosmos might have come from such gamma-ray bursts.
The burst coming from the collision of two neutron stars — each roughly the size of a medium sized city and filled with 1.5 times the mass of the sun — an impact that produced a black hole and the lethal(if close by) incredibly intense bright burst of gamma rays that was picked up by the Swift Satellite
Gold Giving Gamma-Ray Burst -GRB 130603B Below is a fun & informative guide for the creation of the yearned for yellow metal- by Ben Gilliland
