Why scientists are rethinking how gold was made: Magnetars may be the universe’s first cosmic goldsmiths | – The Times of India
For decades, scientists believed that gold and other heavy elements were born from the cataclysmic collision of neutron stars. These rare events, observed across the cosmos, seemed to provide the intense conditions required to forge such elements. However, new findings from NASA and the European Space Agency suggest that another, far more frequent process might…