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Scientists have uncovered hints of a world of new elements beyond the periodic table. A new study has found that ancient stars may have been producing extremely heavy elements that remain unknown to science.
Heavy elements like gold and silver are believed to be created when neutron stars collide, but new research suggests these collisions may also spur nuclear fission reactions.
New scientific models are suggesting that nuclear fission may play a key role in the creation of heavy elements in the universe—an idea which, if true, would be the first example of nuclear fission occurring in space.
Researchers discovered that ancient stars are capable of producing extremely heavy elements that have more atomic mass than any on the periodic table.
Stars at the very dawn of time must have been capable of creating elements far heavier than anything that has ever been found naturally occurring on Earth, or at all in the wider Universe.