Gold Forged in Space! Cosmic Clocks Reveal Universe Secrets!

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]Some pulsars keep time more accurately than atomic clocks here on Earth.

[00:00:04]They've helped us confirm [music] Einstein's theory of general relativity.

[00:00:08]They've helped us detect gravitational waves. And when two of them collide, an event called a kilonova, they forge gold, platinum, and other heavy elements and scatter them across the universe.

[00:00:18]The gold in any jewelry you're wearing right now may have been forged in a neutron star collision billions of years ago. You carry the remnants of the most extreme events in the cosmos.