Forged in Fire: How Gamma-Ray Bursts Could Create the Universe’s Heaviest Elements

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like plutonium, challenging traditional theories and possibly explaining strange cosmic glows and metal traces in Earth’s crust. One of the biggest unanswered questions in physics is how the universe creates the heaviest elements on the periodic table. To solve [...]