Thursday, December 18, 2025

Did Astronomers Just Find a ‘Superkilonova’ Double Explosion? Maybe.

Credit: Caltech/K. Miller and R. Hurt (IPAC)

Astronomers may have just seen the first ever ‘superkilonova,’ a combination of a supernova and a kilonova. These are two very different kinds of stellar explosions, and if this discovery stands, it could change the way scientists understand stellar birth and death.



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