
Astrophysicists Uncover the ‘Dance’ of Electrons in Neutron Star Explosions
Astrophysicists have just made some remarkable observations of the “dance” of electrons in the radioactive glow emitted following the collision of neutron stars. This glow—a by-product of an intense cosmic event called a kilonova—is, for the first time, helping scientists directly measure microscopic particle temperatures. These observations of the dance of electrons accelerated by turbulent…