Barbenheimer is a completely dead entity that defies humanity’s understanding of the universe.
A team of scientists from 34 research institutions in the United States, Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Spain, Canada, and China has specifically designated J0931+0038 as Barbenheimer, also referring to it as an “inexplicable entity,” due to shocking revelations from new observations.
The name Barbenheimer refers to the contrasting films “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” released last year, according to Live Science.
“The Inexplicable Entity” Barbenheimer from 13 billion years ago – (Photo: SDSS).
Barbenheimer, originally named J0931+0038, was once considered a normal red giant star.
It was first discovered in 1999 as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), one of the most detailed international astronomical databases.
In the new study, the SDSS telescope located in New Mexico, USA, was directly aimed at Barbenheimer. Another powerful telescope, the Giant Magellan located in Chile, also “joined the effort.”
New spectral data reveals that Barbenheimer has an extremely unusual chemical composition or metallicity, with an unusually high concentration of heavy elements, including substances that have never been produced on Earth.
This is what makes Barbenheimer an inexplicable entity.
13 billion years ago, it was no longer a red giant but had exploded into a supernova. That was also when it released strange materials that scientists have just captured.
Due to the delay of light, what we observe from Barbenheimer is actually its image from 13 billion years ago, a time when the universe had just experienced a few hundred million years after the Big Bang that birthed it.
The metallicity of this “dead” entity is peculiar for three reasons:
- First, it has an unusually low abundance of light elements like magnesium, sodium, and aluminum.
- Second, it has an unusually high abundance of medium elements like iron, nickel, and zinc.
- Third, most bizarrely, it has an excess of extremely heavy elements like strontium and palladium, as well as others that are heavier than what has ever been produced on Earth.
“Sometimes we see these characteristics, but never in the same star.” – co-author Jennifer Johnson from Ohio State University (USA) stated.
It is illogical for so many heavy elements to exist. Heavy elements must be formed from lighter ones. There are too few light elements to facilitate that.
Even more illogically, the Barbenheimer entity is over 13 billion years old.
That was a time when all cosmological models indicate that the young universe was still very monotonous in terms of chemistry.
According to basic theory, each generation of stars will forge heavier new elements from lighter ones in its core, which then explode and release these new elements into the surroundings. The next generation of stars continues this journey, leading to an increasing abundance of heavy elements in the universe.
Thus, this mysterious entity should belong to the future, not the past.
This is a completely deadlock puzzle, where scientists can only hope to find clues by identifying similar ancient entities.
