THE STUDY "A New Mechanism for Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions," published in the April Astrophysical Journal. The aim is to understand how a collapsing star can, in a single second, ignite into a supernova and explode like a trillion trillion trillion gallons of jet fuel.
Raw Data: Why Stars Blow Up
A star one second, an exploding supernova the next
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