JAKARTA – Telescope Britain’s Gravitational Wave Optical Transient Oberserver (GOTO) has detected a potentially terrifying collision between two dead suns, known as neutron stars. Research into the collision of two neutron stars is believed to be important information about the formation of the solar system.
Because the collision will form various heavy metals which then form stars and planets. Similar to what happened to the planets in the Milky Way solar system billions of years ago.
Currently, GOTO, which is stationed on the volcanic islands of La Palma, Spain, has successfully detected the two neutron stars. In-depth observations will continue until the collision occurs.
“The most important thing is the speed to keep up with the two dead suns. We have to be very fast because this will be short and pass quickly,” said Professor Danny Steeghs of Warwick University.
It is known that a neutron star is a dead sun that has collapsed due to its enormous weight. It is called a dead sun because the atoms that once made it shine have been destroyed.
Neutron stars have such strong gravity that they can attract each other. Eventually they can collide and form planets up to solar system .
The BBC said, when the collision took place, there would be flashes of light and powerful shock waves rippled throughout the universe. It makes everything in the universe vibrate, including, imperceptibly, the atoms within each of us.