Belarusian scientists have found the largest sources of anti -ity in the Universe, BelTA reports.
today, March 8, at 9.00 Greenwich in the leading world astrophysical journal The Astrophysical Journal, an article by the Belarusian scientists of the Kvante Optics and Quantum Computer Science of the Institute of Physics named after B.I. Stepanov Nan Belarusia, which reports the largest sources of antimatter in the universe “- follows from the message.
Nikolai Prokopen and Grigory Vereshchagin showed that such sources are surprisingly compact neutron or quarrel stars, with a diameter of 10 km – 100 thousand times less diameter of the Sun.
Born as a result of gravitational compression, these super -intense astronomical dwarfs push out the electrons outward, creating a layer of electrons around them, thereby providing their electronestability.
At the same time, the voltage of the electric field created by this layer of electrons is giant – 1018 V/m, exceeding hundreds of billions of billions of the electric field with a thunderstorm in the earth’s atmosphere.
In such super -sitting fields, antimatter in the form of positrons and matter in the form of electrons is born from a vacuum, they said at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
The possibility of this process was predicted back in 1951 by one of the creators of quantum electrodynamics by Julian Shwinger, who received the Nobel Physics Prize in 1965. However, in what objects and what power the antimatter is created was not clear.
The computer modeling conducted by Belarusian scientists made it possible to estimate the number of pairs born to young neutron and quark stars. This result allows you to understand the nature of the luminosity and mechanisms of energy generation of such astrophysical phenomena as cosmological gamma hammers and soft repeating gamma-bars, which not only determine the overall picture of our universe, but also affect the biological processes on Earth, being one of the sources of occurring mutations in DNA.
This work is the first publication of Belarusian scientists in The Astrophysical Journal, published since 1895.