[Right_Wing_Madman]

This confirmed that neutron star mergers do forge elements heavier than gold, and even confirms that long-GRBs can come from neutron star mergers.

Twenty years ago we thought supernovas created the heavy elements like gold. But physicists began to realize that supernovas don't create enough energy to form these elements and are instead dependent on a greater and more rare cosmological event: the collision of two neutron stars. The observations from the Webb telescope appear to confirm this theory.

[citizen]

Now what? Will we be able to turn lead into gold??

(and do we want to)