https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7zxge/a-mind-blowing-explosion-in-space-forged-ingredients-for-life-scientists-discover

Scientists have detected key ingredients for life in the fallout of one of the biggest and most inexplicable space explosions ever seen, reports a new study. 

The discovery offers a rare glimpse of cosmic processes that may forge substances essential to many lifeforms on Earth, such as iodine and thorium, while also raising new mysteries about the sources of radiant bursts known as kilonovas.