Core-collapse supernovae (CC-SNe) represent the final evolutionary explosive phase of sufficiently massive stars. Their characterization consists in understanding the progenitor star’s physical ...

Our basic understanding of core-collapse supernovae hasn’t changed in decades. Large stars burn through all the fuel at their cores and start creating heavier elements in reactions that consume energy ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky is living on borrowed time, and its eventual death promises to be one of the great spectacles of the cosmos. When the aging red supergiant that marks the ...

Exploding oldies Massive stars exploding in a core-collapse supernova explosion can be used as tracers for actively forming stars and the physical consequences their explosive deaths exert on the ...

A new study suggests that subtle changes in the behavior of neutrinos could determine whether some massive stars explode as supernovas or collapse into black holes, according to research published in ...