Artist’s conception illustrates the differences in phenomena resulting from an “ordinary” core-collapse supernova explosion, an explosion creating a gamma-ray burst, and one creating a Fast Blue Optical Transient. Details in text.
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The Sound of One Star Crashing: Haunting Melody from the Death of a Star
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot…