It’s scary enough for these collisions to occur many galaxies away. However, the study focused on the implications of such an explosion occurring within proximity to Earth-like planets. The study draws from the example of GW170817, a kilonova detected in 2017 some 130 million light-years away. Employing GW170817, researchers embarked on a mission to determine, basically (to use unscientific language), how close is too close.
Haille Perkins of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign led the team, which utilized advanced computer simulations to determine the minimum safe distance between Earth and a potential kilonova explosion. Spoiler alert: their findings read like a sci-fi disaster movie.
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