05 October 2016
Neutron star natal kicks could be the catalyst for binary formation and new gravitational wave sources
... wave emission that could be detected with aLIGO and that these sources could additionally produce a unique supernova electromagnetic counterpart which precedes the GW merger. aLIGO is short for the advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave...
27 January 2017
Distant quasars help refine the rate of the expanding Universe
...per megaparsec (a megaparsec is about 3.3 million light-years). Nonetheless, even this method of using a limited number of supernovas as ‘standard candles’ to measure the rate was recently called in question, when a group of scientists suggested that...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
...The result? The duo found a correlation with type-1A supernova distance calculations for the past eight billion years, but ... the Hubble constant in the local Universe based on supernova data compared with those calculated for large scale structures ...
08 March 2021
New study determines best place and time to live in the Milky Way
.... It would only take a nearby high-energy transient such as a supernova or gamma-ray burst (GRB) to destroy our atmosphere, which in ...”. Although other high-energy events such as supernovae can have devastating effects on inhabited worlds, Spinelli...
October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
...stars, or stars may have formed and, when one went supernova (exploded upon death), it may have blown out the dwarf...10 times larger than would be expected if it had been caused by a supernova. All we can say for certain about this cloud is that it is ...
13 November 2017
Powerful outburst points to new class of high-energy transients
...be agreed upon. Some have been suggested to occur from supernovae that are up to 100 times more energetic than typical...apart by a black hole could be responsible or whether a supernova could describe their detection. Both of these could account for ...
