Computer Code Gives Astrophysicists First Full Simulation Of Star's Final Hours
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 21:14
in Astronomy & Space
The precise conditions inside a white dwarf star in the hours leading up to its explosive end as a Type Ia supernova are one of the mysteries confronting astrophysicists studying these massive stellar explosions. Now astrophysicists and mathematicians have created the first full-star simulation of the hours preceding the largest thermonuclear explosions in the universe.