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Astronomers capture a rare shock breakout as a massive Wolf-Rayet star explodes into a broad-lined Type Ic supernova, revealing new clues about stellar deaths, black hole formation, and why some blast ...

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When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright and powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters material across the universe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have captured the death of a massive star from its first faint flash of X-rays, revealing an unusual explosion that ...

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