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The origin of Earth’s precious metals could be much closer to being confirmed.<\/p>\n
Precious metals such as gold, silver or platinum are heavy elements, and require an enormous amount of energy to complete the r-process <\/em> necessary for their production.<\/p>\n This process requires a large amount of energy, and is not possible under current Earth conditions.<\/p>\n Recently, MIT <\/em> has discovered a new galaxy, Reticulum II<\/em>, 98,000 light years from Earth. Studies carried out on this galaxy indicate that it would be full of precious metals!<\/p>\n Therefore, it is believed that these must have arisen somewhere in the Universe under extreme conditions, where gigantic stellar explosions and neutron star mergers occur.<\/strong> <\/p>\n These collisions between neutron stars are common in the early stages of galaxies like Reticulum II.<\/p>\n In other words, neutron star mergers are responsible for the origin<\/strong> of the precious metals that we have today on Earth, since those that could have originated at the beginning of the formation of the Earth, being heavy elements , sank into the core due to gravity.<\/p>\n In fact<\/strong>, it is likely that all the precious metals we have on Earth were produced in a single neutron star merger.<\/strong><\/p>\n The researchers’ hypothesis about how these elements arrived on our planet is that something similar to the origin of water happened; They traveled through the Universe in asteroids<\/strong>, until they reached our planet.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1126,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-blank.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n