Possible 'superkilonova' exploded not once but twice
  • 39 points maschnitz

    Here's the original press release by California Institute of Technology (CalTech).

    Exact same words. But with no ads or tracking.

    Phys.org is a content aggregator. They republish freely available content with their own ads, tracking, etc.

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  • 27 points critical_patch

    Neat, I’d never heard of a kilonova before, but the idea makes sense to me. I’ll have to search for images of the 2017 event later…the links from this site are cancer on mobile.

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    4 points skorps

    Yeah but this one is super!

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  • 2 points Candid_Koala_3602

    Damn the gravity needed for this…

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  • 4 points careless_swiggin

    So collision made a black hole and somehow some nueteonium must have splashed twice? Kinda like how you get with matter accreting onto a white dwarf?

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    3 points elijahebanks

    A massive star spinning really fast, supernovas into two small neutron stars which then merge

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