Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun.

This leads to the most common general type of supernova in the Universe: a core-collapse supernova. The remnant of supernova 1987a, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud some 165,000 light years ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious blast of X-rays to a star that, like a cosmic action hero, just refused to die.

In the core-collapse supernova type, the beginning of the supernova is marked by when the core of the star starts fusing silicon into iron. Usually, ...

We do not know whether all core-collapse supernovae follow the same pathway or not. NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; X-ray: NASA/CXC/GSFC/U.Hwang & J.Laming. This is where the core-collapse supernova happens.

Core of a core-collapse supernova at the onset of explosion. Neutrinos emitted from the protoneutron at the center (bluish sphere) are absorbed by the gas behind the shock front, ...

The oft-predicted third type, the so-called electron collapse supernova, ... "With SN 2018zd, the authors estimate an event rate of 0.6–8.5% of all core collapse supernovae; ...

Because the supernova "family tree" was laid out according to the light from supernovae, not their cause, there's technically also a type Ib and Ic, but since their actual cause is core collapse ...

An iron-core collapse supernova occurs with massive stars (greater than ten solar masses), which collapse so violently that it causes a huge, catastrophic explosion.

Hypernovae, or collapsars, are exceptionally energetic core-collapse supernovae stemming from the rapid collapse of stars exceeding 30 solar masses into a black hole. Key takeaways sponsored by ...

Astronomers suspected there might be a link between SN185 and the remnant structure dubbed RCW 86, but for a long time, they assumed the event that formed RCW 86 had been a core-collapse supernova ...