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Home » Scientists Observed for the First Time a Neutron Star Collision

Scientists Observed for the First Time a Neutron Star Collision

October 21, 2017 by Jason Brusse 1 Comment

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For the very first time, the world of science managed to witness a neutron star collision. The monumental project was a conjoint effort between dozens of specialists and observatory around the world. The mission intended to record the gravitational waves that finally reached Earth after 130 million years since their creation.

This Year’s Scientific Breakthrough Was Possible Thanks to Einstein’s General Relativity Theory

Millions of years ago, the Galaxy NGC 4993 of the Hydra constellation witnessed how two dying stars started spiraling closer to one another. In just a few seconds, the two celestial bodies collided. The impact of this event has likely created a black hole. Not only that, but it sent out signals throughout the universe. These are known as gravitational waves.

However, the ripples in spacetime have only recently reached Earth. This stop gave our scientists a unique opportunity to study gravitational waves. The phenomenon was more insightful than the 2015 similar detection.

Thanks to this window of opportunity, scientists are now able to answer complex questions. They now know how at least half the mass of gold and platinum in the universe was created, the nature of gamma-ray bursts that may generate fatal radiation, and the speed of the expansion of the universe.

This year’s event was actually predicted by a great mind a century ago, Albert Einstein. His General Relativity Theory claims that monstrous objects in the universe can create ripples in spacetime. They are supposed to be so powerful that they can distort physical and temporal dimensions.

This Is the First Time Scientists Proved that Gamma-Ray Bursts Originate from a Neutron Star Collision

On Thursday 17 August 2017, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the GW170817 gravitational-wave event. After 1.7 seconds, the equipment recorded another event in the form of a burst of gamma rays. Both phenomena came from the same direction.

This recording attested for the first time in human history that the gamma-ray bursts space-borne telescopes have kept detecting are creations of a neutron star collision. Since that August day, 3,000 researchers have been working with 70 observatories to track down the source of the two events.

Once they compiled all data and analyzed it, they identified the source as the Galaxy NGC 4993. This is 130 million light years away from us. One of the main findings of this study is that the merger between two neutron stars produced at least half of the universe’s mass of gold and platinum.

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Comments

  1. Tim G. Meloche says

    November 21, 2017 at 14:50

    Consider this:

    The thought of space-time geometry (GR) to explain
    how gravity works in nature originated over 100 years ago. Today’s
    observational and experimental data sets confirm the idea that general relativity
    can now be kicked to the curb in the same way as in Galileo’s time the idea that
    the Earth was at the center of the Universe. Fear of change and vested
    interests are at work as academics’ hold dearly their faith in general relativity (GR) as the answer to how gravity works
    despite nature’s disagreement with the evidence … history repeats. Clearly academia
    strives for clarity and truth and even Albert Einstein had his doubts about
    space –time geometry as the complete answer to how gravity works in the natural
    world.

    21st century innovation to how the force of
    gravity transfers is found in the google links below.

    The principles of atomic gravity are tools
    used to unify and advance academic research in all the natural sciences. The
    principles describe nature’s mechanism to how the force of gravity is
    transferred at both the atomic and solar system scale.

    Innovative Principles of Atomic Gravity-
    Summary

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRTa9BoY64I0KsYrM1y7aRMONd7OrFm5RGIgPGA7PolB8hIXjF66azQOTu2yHWpl3uzw614aX6Ks-9q/pub

    Zero G flight at the Atomic Scale

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRhOSAFyKb9r0kMaEGbLm-skalqF7UAXaqKQDq_RcJCWDAmOQCkbUvIIwih5DALMnqa6p7DzmQxAbzI/pub

    Hope and faith should not part of the scientific
    method. Please stop self-interests from marketing space-time research for more
    public funding. Play your part in the advancement of scientific knowledge and
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