Egypt .. "Hypatia" stone raises controversy and reveals the secrets of the universe
The geologist of the Egyptian Authority for Mineral Revolution Ali Barakat discovered a strange stone in the Great Sand Sea (southwest of Egypt), about 26 years ago. Scholars' curiosity.
The prevailing belief after the discovery was that it belonged to a meteorite, but a study by scientists from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa was published in 2015. They found a group of noble gases in this stone, which made them confirm that it does not belong to any known type of meteorite or comet.
In 2018, the same scientists published various analyzes, which included the discovery of a mineral in stone, which is “nickel phosphide”, which has never been found in any body in our solar system, and recently a new chemical analysis indicates the same research team, whose details were published in the latest issue of the journal Icarus", that the stone could be the first concrete evidence found on the planet of the explosion of a "supernova" of the first type.
The supernova is one of the most active events in the universe, where a massive stellar explosion occurs, at the end of the star’s life, during which the star ejects its envelope into space, and there are several types of this event, including the first type, which occurs in a binary system of stars, where A white dwarf star pulls matter from another companion star, and eventually the white dwarf becomes heavy, hot, unstable and explodes.
Nuclear fusion during a supernova of this type creates very unusual patterns for the concentration of some metals, and a white dwarf star that explodes in a supernova of this type turns into gas atoms.
In the new analysis conducted during the study, the research team found that the minerals found in the Hypatia stone indicate that the new scenario, related to its formation in a Type I supernova, is closer to the truth.
A report published yesterday by the University of Johannesburg's website says that the research team's hypothesis about the origin of Hypatia begins with a red giant star that collapsed into a white dwarf star, and the collapse could have occurred within a giant dust cloud also called "the nebula."
This white dwarf found itself in a binary system with another star, and eventually the white dwarf star "eat" the other star, and at some point, the "hungry" white dwarf exploded as a Type I supernova within the dust cloud.
After cooling, the remaining gas atoms from the supernova began to adhere to particles of the dust cloud, forming the body of the rock, at some point, and the rock began to rush towards the Earth, and the heat of entering into the Earth's atmosphere, along with the impact pressure in the Great Sand Sea in southwest of Egypt, to the creation of small diamonds that were found inside the rock.
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