Darak Watson, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, said no one expected the new explosion to be a goal. This means that our current theories lack significant physics.
Scientists observed a "perfect" explosion in space that they say "makes no sense".
Researchers have been trying for many years to understand the nature of the big explosion 'Klonovi' produced by the collision of two neutron stars.
It is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe that create extremely harsh working conditions in the universe and in doing so they can be responsible for everything from black holes to metals like gold.
But much about Klonovi is still mysterious to scientists. This includes what the form of the explosion itself could be.
The researchers believed they were flat and asymmetrical. This fits with both expectations and models of such explosions.
New research has claimed that this explosion is actually almost perfect and completely symmetrical. Researchers do not know how this is possible and in their opinion these are the result of unknown physics.
"No one expected the explosion to look like this," said study author Darak Watson, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. It doesn't make sense that it's the shape of a kare, like a ball. But our calculations clearly show that this is the case. This probably means that the ideas about Klonovi and their copies that we have been considering for the last 25 years lack significant physics.
The nature of this new physics is not yet clear. Scientists have considered several possible explanations. For example, the idea that an explosion could involve a kind of 'magnetic bomb' in its center blows everything up from the inside. But some of these explanations conflict with other models and no satisfactory explanation was found.
The unpredictable form can also help with other tasks, including solving a long-standing mystery about how fast the universe is expanding. This velocity is one of the most fundamental measurements in physics, but the different measurements are contradictory, creating another mystery.
Albert Sinpin, a student at the University of Copenhagen, who wrote on the results for the first time, said: "There is a lot of debate among astronomers about how fast the universe is expanding. This speed tells us, among other things, how old the universe is and the difference between the two methods for measuring it is about a billion years. Here we can have a third method that can be complete and tested compared to other measurements.
Researchers are currently using various objects in space to measure this speed. They calculate the distance between these things and how this distance changed.
This set of Clonovi objects may be another useful addition that provides another measure.
"If they're bright and mostly round, and if we know how far away they are, we can use Klonovi as a new way to measure distances independently," says Professor Watson. These are the new measure of the measurement of the universe.
"Knowing what shape is is very important here, because if you have something that is not round, it looks different depending on the angle of your vision. A spherical explosion provides far greater accuracy in measurement.
The new findings are first taken from data from 2017 on a klonova located 14 million light-years away, which was reviewed in detail for the first time. That data is still providing up-to-date information, such as this, to scientists who keep trying to understand it.
However, scientists hope to gather more information about Klonovi in the coming years. including information collected by LIGO observatories that detect waves in spacetime. With information about more explosions, researchers should be able to learn more about them, including how they acquire their unpredictable and incomprehensible form.
These results have been described in the new document 'Clonova's Round Shape' published in the journal Nature.
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