University of Toronto physicists create supernova in a jar

A team of physicists from the University of Toronto and Rutgers University have mimicked the explosion of a supernova in miniature.



A supernova is an exploding star. In a certain type of supernova, the detonation starts with a flame ball buried deep inside a white dwarf. The flame ball is much lighter than its surroundings, so it rises rapidly making a plume topped with an accelerating smoke ring.

?We created a smaller version of this process by triggering a special chemical reaction  [...]

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