At the end of the Universe, long after the last shining stars flickered, there could be one last explosion. Named black dwarf supernovae, these dazzling explosions will announce in the eternal darkness as the Universe falls asleep, a new study suggests. These newly proposed supernovae are a special race that …
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(News) – An event for mass extinction that struck Earth 359 million years ago still has scientists scratching their heads. Are there volcanic eruptions? The meteorite? Gamma-ray bursts? A new paper looks at another possible culprit: exploding stars. Researchers from the University of Illinois claim that evidence hidden in rocks …
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Life tried, but it did not work. As the Late Devonian period approached, more and more living things died out, culminating in one of the greatest events of mass extinction our planet has ever witnessed, some 359 million years ago. The culprit responsible for so many deaths may not have …
Read More »Artistic perception of a dark brown dwarf, which could resemble hypothetical black dwarfs, which predict to exist in the distant future. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech “This is the way the world ends,” TS Elliot said in his famous poem, “not with a slap, but with a trick.” These days, scientists …
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Up to half of the calcium in the Universe – and that includes our bones and teeth – is thought to come from exploding supernova stars, and researchers have now gained an incredible insight into how these ultra rare, calcium-rich supernovae end up reach of her life. The never before …
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