Cosmology; Astrophysics; Black Holes; Solar Flare; NASA; Space Telescopes; Space Exploration; Astronomy

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study. For decades, astronomers only had theories about where some of the heaviest elements in nature, like gold, uranium and platinum, come from. But by taking aContinue Reading