The collision of two neutron stars is called a kilonova, as it is a thousand times more powerful than a nova. Most of the universe’s heavy metals are produced during these explosions. Each kilonova produces an amount of gold roughly equal to the mass of 10 to 100 Earths.

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Was the Big Bang Actually an Explosion?

The big-bang theory was first proposed by Georges Lemaître in 1927 sans its contemporary name, which was coined in the 1950s. The common name has allowed for the beginnings of our universe to be too often depicted as a massive explosion similar to that of an epic supernova. But was our universe