1 00:00:01,650 --> 00:00:09,730 I'll 2 00:00:09,730 --> 00:00:14,840 the never dare to you 3 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,920 on average satellites he tapped a massive explosion somewhere in the sky 4 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:23,110 these are gamma ray bursts the brightest blasts in the universe 5 00:00:23,110 --> 00:00:27,380 there thought to be caused by jets that matter moving near the speed of light 6 00:00:27,380 --> 00:00:32,369 associated with the birth a black holes gamma-ray burst that last longer than 7 00:00:32,369 --> 00:00:33,180 two seconds 8 00:00:33,180 --> 00:00:36,989 are the most common and I thought to result from the death of a massive star 9 00:00:36,989 --> 00:00:40,080 shorter bursts prove much more elusive 10 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,270 impact even some %uh their basic properties were unknown and two masses 11 00:00:44,270 --> 00:00:46,700 with satellite get work in 2004 12 00:00:46,700 --> 00:00:49,989 ok astronomer suspected that crashing neutron stars 13 00:00:49,989 --> 00:00:53,460 could explain short bursts I'll 14 00:00:53,460 --> 00:00:57,719 any trust our is what remains most are several times the mass of the Sun 15 00:00:57,719 --> 00:00:59,320 collapses and explodes 16 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,809 with more than the sun's mass packed into a spear 17 00:01:02,809 --> 00:01:06,520 30 miles across these objects are incredibly dense 18 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:11,399 just a sugar cube size piece neutron star comley as much as on the water 19 00:01:11,399 --> 00:01:15,090 in Great Lakes when two orbiting neutron stars collide 20 00:01:15,090 --> 00:01:19,920 the margin for my black home releasing enormous amount of energy in the process 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,000 armed with state-of-the-art super computer models 22 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,950 scientists have shown that collided neutron stars can produce the energetic 23 00:01:26,950 --> 00:01:29,140 check required for gamma-ray burst 24 00:01:29,140 --> 00:01:33,149 burly our simulations demonstrated that mergers can make black balls 25 00:01:33,149 --> 00:01:37,119 others have shown that the high-speed particle jets needed to make a gamma-ray 26 00:01:37,119 --> 00:01:38,569 burst would continue 27 00:01:38,569 --> 00:01:42,940 if placed in the swirling wreckage from a recent merger well 28 00:01:42,940 --> 00:01:46,530 now the simulations reveal little step up the process 29 00:01:46,530 --> 00:01:50,149 how the emerging stars magnetic field organizes itself 30 00:01:50,149 --> 00:01:53,569 into outwardly directed component capable of forming and checked 31 00:01:53,569 --> 00:01:58,300 the damian a supercomputer at Germany's Max Planck Institute gravitational 32 00:01:58,300 --> 00:01:58,840 physics 33 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:03,440 he had six weeks to reveal the details on a process that unfolds ingest 34 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,119 35007 second ok 35 00:02:07,119 --> 00:02:11,470 the new simulation shows two neutron stars merging to form a Blackpool 36 00:02:11,470 --> 00:02:16,670 surrounded by super hot plasma on the left is a map the density at the stars 37 00:02:16,670 --> 00:02:21,350 as a scramble the matter into a dense hot cloud a swirling to bring 38 00:02:21,350 --> 00:02:25,280 on the right is a map on the dynamic fields with blue representing magnetic 39 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,860 strength a billion times greater than signs 40 00:02:27,860 --> 00:02:33,550 the new the simulation shows the same disorderly behavior up the matter 41 00:02:33,550 --> 00:02:37,690 and magnetic fields both structures gradually become more organized 42 00:02:37,690 --> 00:02:42,010 well what's important here is the white magnetic field 43 00:02:42,010 --> 00:02:45,870 amidst this incredible turmoil the white field has taken on the character 44 00:02:45,870 --> 00:02:50,760 a project although no matter is flowing through it when the simulation and suck 45 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,790 showing that chaotic magnetic fields suddenly become organized as chats 46 00:02:54,790 --> 00:03:00,080 provide scientists with the missing link it confirms that merging neutron stars 47 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,880 can indeed produce short gamma-ray bursts 48 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,480 ok at this moment summer crossed was nice 49 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,299 it's about to happen again 50 00:03:10,299 --> 00:03:11,819 on