Understanding the formation of massive stars is important because they create most of the heavy elements such as carbon, neon, and silicon, that form galaxies and even life, the researchers say.

In this environment, Mumpower’s team suggest that energetic photons in a jet collide with protons to create a neutron and a pion. Since these neutrons are have no electrical charge, many of them could ...

Instead, the galaxy contains 10 times more heavy elements than expected, the study authors said. “Such elements are produced by massive stars and the large amount of oxygen suggests that several ...

A high-energy photonic jet (white and blue) blasts through a collapsar with a black hole at its center. The red space around the jet represents the cocoon where free neutrons may be captured ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer and ...

Collision of Two Neutron Stars Billions of Years Ago Made Enough Gold and Uranium To Fill Earth's Oceans, Says Study Billions ...

It is really striking that we didn't see any evidence for these heavy elements." Stars forge heavy elements by nucleosynthesis. Three processes are responsible for that: the p-process, the s ...

Barstow (University of Leicester) Red giants are hot enough to turn the helium at their core, which was made by fusing hydrogen, into heavy elements like carbon. But most stars are not massive ...