{"id":73345,"date":"2017-10-17T03:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T10:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/neutron-star-smashup-seen-for-first-time-transforms-understanding-of-universe"},"modified":"2017-10-17T03:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T10:42:34","slug":"neutron-star-smashup-seen-for-first-time-transforms-understanding-of-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/neutron-star-smashup-seen-for-first-time-transforms-understanding-of-universe","title":{"rendered":"Neutron star smashup seen for first time, \u2018transforms\u2019 understanding of Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neutron-star-smashup-seen-for-first-time-transforms-understanding-of-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have witnessed the cataclysmic crash of two ultra-dense neutron stars in a galaxy far away, and concluded that such impacts forged at least half the gold in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Shockwaves and light flashes from the collision travelled some 130 million light-years to be captured by Earthly detectors on August 17, excited teams revealed at press conferences held around the globe on Monday as a dozen related science papers were published in top academic journals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe witnessed history unfolding in front of our eyes: two neutron stars drawing closer, closer\u2026 turning faster and faster around each other, then colliding and scattering debris all over the place,\u201d co-discoverer Benoit Mours of France\u2019s CNRS research institute told AFP.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-10-neutron-star-smash-up-discovery-lifetime.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;10-neutron-star-smash-up-discovery-lifetime.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have witnessed the cataclysmic crash of two ultra-dense neutron stars in a galaxy far away, and concluded that such impacts forged at least half the gold in the Universe. Shockwaves and light flashes from the collision travelled some 130 million light-years to be captured by Earthly detectors on August 17, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}