The white widow model: A new scenario for the birth of Type Ia supernovae
Friday, October 26, 2012 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
J. Craig Wheeler has studied the exploding stars called supernovae for more than four decades. Now he has a new idea on the identity of the "parents" of one of the most important types of supernovae—the Type Ia, those used as "standard candles" in cosmology studies that led to the discovery of dark energy, the mysterious force causing the universe's expansion to speed up.