https://www.afinalwarning.com/512629.html (Natural News) A new study published in the
Physical Review Letters suggests that the remnant cores of dead average-size stars can explode like a nuclear bomb.
Known as white dwarfs, these dense cores are packed with heavy radioactive elements called actinides that can spontaneously undergo nuclear fission – the splitting of atoms. Depending on certain conditions, these cores can eventually undergo uncontrolled fission, culminating in a massive stellar explosion known as a supernova.
“The conditions to build and set off an atomic bomb seemed very difficult. I was surprised that these conditions might be satisfied in a natural way inside a very dense white dwarf,” Charles Horowitz, a nuclear astrophysicist from
Uranium snowflakes could set off explosions of dead stars
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Some dead stars may harbor enough uranium to set off a thermonuclear bomb
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Small snowflakes of radioactive uranium that causes huge nuclear explosions may clarify some of the world s more bizarre star blasts.
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Death of the Miniature Stars
As miniature stars die, they cool into husks of their old selves called white dwarfs. A recent study suggests that atoms of uranium sink to the core of these aging white dwarf stars as they cool, icing into snowflake-like crystals no larger than grains of sand.
Illinois State University s theoretical physicist and study co-author Matt Caplan explained that these snowflakes can function as many of the tiniest nuclear bombs in the galaxy, becoming the force that breaks off the powder keg.