Sentences with phrase «kilonova blast»

And this is special: In the remnants of the kilonova blast, vast quantities of heavy elements, like gold, platinum, lead, uranium and silver had been synthesized.

This powerful kilonova blast emits as much visible and near - infrared light every second as the Sun does every few years.

Not exact matches

The fading glow provided key evidence that it was the decaying fireball of a new type of stellar blast called a kilonova.

«But this new theory predicts that when you compare near - infrared and optical images of a short gamma - ray burst about a week after the blast, the kilonova should pop out in the infrared, and that's exactly what we're seeing.»

Although the initial blast of gamma rays lasted just one - tenth of a second, it was roughly 100 billion times brighter than the subsequent kilonova flash.