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Did Astronomers Just Find a ‘Superkilonova’ Double Explosion? Maybe.


Astronomers may have just seen the first ever ‘superkilonova,’ a combination of a supernova and a kilonova. These are two very different kinds of stellar explosions, and if this discovery stands, it could change the way scientists understand stellar birth and death.

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