Discover a giant diamond in the universe

A planet full of monolithic diamonds with a diameter of more than 4,023km is only 50 light-years from Earth discovered by American astronomers.

According to Express, the diamond planet is estimated to weigh about 10 ³⁴ carats in the constellation Centaurus. In a report published in February 2004, the team at the Harvard Astrophysics Center - Smithsonia in Massachusetts, USA, described the planet as a mass of crystallized carbon, like a giant block of diamond. .

Huge diamond blocks formed from the core of BPM white dwarf 37093. (Photo: fooyoh.com).

In the past, this diamond block was BPM 37093 , a star the size of the Sun collapsed into the core after exhausting fuel and could not continue to maintain nuclear reactions. BPM 37093 becomes a hot white dwarf, primarily composed of carbon, covering the outside with thin layers of hydrogen and helium gas. Over time, carbon crystallizes and turns into diamond.

For more than four decades, astronomers have argued that the inner part of dwarfs has crystallized, but only recently have they obtained direct evidence of this speculation.

White dwarfs not only glow but also emit sounds like giant gongs, due to continuous vibrations inside. ' By measuring those vibrations, we can study the hidden part of the dwarf, and thereby help geologists study the inner part of our earth '.

" We found that the carbon inside the dwarf has condensed, creating the largest diamond in the galaxy ," Metcalfe said.

Astronomers predict that our sun will become a white dwarf when it is ' dead ' for another 5 billion years. About 2 billion years later, the inner core of the sun will crystallize, leaving a giant diamond in the center of the solar system. "Our sun will become a diamond and that diamond will last forever," Metcalfe said.