There’s too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from. – Live Science

Something is raining gold
across the universe. But no one knows what it is.
Here’s the problem: Gold is an element
, which means you can’t make it through ordinary chemical reactions
though alchemists
tried for centuries. To make the sparkly metal, you have to bind 79 protons and 118 neutrons together to form a single atomic nucleus
. That’s an intense nuclear fusion
reaction. But such intense fusion doesn’t happen frequently enough, at least not nearby, to make the giant trove of gol…

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