Earth's Gold May Come From Collisions of Dead Stars

Some emerging information on where all the gold came from from Harvard University, story at space.com.

All of the gold on Earth might have come from cosmic crashes between superdense dead stars, new research suggests. The origin of the universe's gold is mysterious... (Ed: tipoff!!!!!)

...a new study posits that the collision of two neutron stars — the tiny, incredibly dense cores of exploded stars — could catalyze the creation of the valuable metal. (Ed:   So smart yet so dumb...)

"We estimate that the amount of gold produced and ejected during the merger of the two neutron stars may be as large as 10 moon masses — quite a lot of bling!" lead author Edo Berger, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), said in a statement.

"To paraphrase Carl Sagan, we are all star stuff, and our jewelry is colliding-star stuff."

Colliding stars somewhere far off in the universe some time back ultimately fomenting mass amounts of moron-hood in the lovers of this metal here on earth (many in leadership no less!) over the last couple of thousands of years ... simply amazing allegations.

Animation below on how two stars may have collided/fused to form conditions that perhaps could create gold, round and round we go...