Powerful ancient explosions explain new class of supernovae
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 15:10
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers affiliated with the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have discovered two of the brightest and most distant supernovae ever recorded, 10 billion light-years away and a hundred times more luminous than a normal supernova. Their findings appear in the Dec. 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.