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After detecting a strange combination of signals in the summer of 2025, astronomers believe they may have captured the first evidence of a unique phenomenon previously theorized, but never observed: a superkilonova. Supernovae are a commonly observed astrophysical phenomenon — a giant explosion at the end of a star’s life cycle. They occur when aContinue reading “Astronomers may have detected a first-of-its-kind superkilonova”
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