Strange Cosmic Blast May Be First-Ever Superkilonova Observed

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-cosmic-blast-may-be-first-ever-superkilonova-observed/

5 Comments

  1. they really gloss over one of the more interesting stellar events I’ve ever heard of here – *fission*? during a core collapse? i mean… what? it’s from the speed of rotation? so was it a centrifugal force that splits the core in two when the collapse or rebound occurs? and it makes two neutron stars in the process, and they immediately collide? so it’s like a two stage *nova event?

  2. ZombieZookeeper on

    Since we keep coming up with names for novas (supernova, kilonova, hypernova, etc) I propose Ultranova or Meganova for this type.