Although water is now abundant in the universe, most of the matter in the universe immediately after the Big Bang was born was hydrogen and helium. Therefore, it is thought that for there to be enough ...

Pan-STARRS, an all-sky Hawaii survey project, was the brightest supernova in history. Further detailed observations over four years have also revealed that the record explosion was caused by a very ...

Application of a new statistic to x-ray images of a supernova remnant suggests that clumps were formed during the explosion Sato, T., Hughes, J. P., Williams, B. J. & Morii, M. Genus statistic applied ...

Supernova SN 2023zkd, located 730 million light-years from Earth, was identified as anomalous by the Light curve Anomaly Identification and Similarity Search (LAISS) AI algorithm. SN 2023zkd exhibited ...

Koshiba Masatoshi and Kajita Takaaki, two recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics, both made significant contributions to the world-class neutrino observatories Kamiokande and Super Kamiokande. After ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

Scientists have captured the moment the shockwave of a supernova explosion breaks out through the surface of a doomed star for the first time, revealing what appears to be a surprisingly symmetrical ...

Astronomers find an explanation for the fastest stars in the galaxy while uncovering a new mechanism for a supernova explosion. Credit: Technion illustration Astronomers call a special kind of ...

Astronomers have witnessed a massive star's explosive death, a supernova, for the first time in its early stages. Observed by the VLT, the star, 15 times the Sun's mass, exploded in an unusual ...

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar explosions are known, that ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...