Magnetar flares emerge as possible source of early cosmic gold

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 30, 2025

as gold, get created and distributed throughout the universe? "It's a pretty fundamental question in terms of the origin of complex matter in the universe," said Anirudh Patel, a doctoral student at Columbia University in New York. "It's a fun puzzle that hasn't actually been solved." Patel led a study using 20-year-old archival data from NASA and ESA telescopes that finds evidence f