Neutron star
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What the Rumored Neutron Star Merger Might Teach Us
In a sense, neutron star mergers are the largest hadron colliders ever conceived.Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . This month, before LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, and its European counterpart Virgo, were going to close down for a […] -
Earth’s Stash of Gold Comes From Colliders Fit for Gods
Ron Dale via Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . One of science’s greatest feats is having described where we came from—not as individual people, or as a species, or even as a planet, but as stuff, the very material we’re made of. The Big Bang forged all of […]