Every piece of gold jewelry on Earth was originally forged by what extreme cosmic event?

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Every piece of gold jewelry on Earth was originally forged by what extreme cosmic event?

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The universe has trillions of intensely bright stars. So why is the night sky mostly pitch black?

Supermassive black holes occasionally tear apart and consume wandering stars in a violent process called a tidal disruption event, but they do not always swallow their cosmic meals cleanly.

The monster hiding at the center of our galaxy

Black holes can literally stretch your body into a single strand of atoms in a horrifying process officially known as spaghettification.

Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive supergiant stars and are so incomprehensibly dense that a single teaspoon of their material would weigh roughly six billion tons on Earth.

Black holes do not actually suck things in like a cosmic vacuum cleaner, but rather they just exert an incredibly strong gravitational pull identical to any other object of similar mass.

A bigger world.
One discovery
at a time.