Missing link found between turbulence in collapsing star and hypernova, gamma-ray burst
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 11:20
in Astronomy & Space
A supercomputer simulation of a mere 10 milliseconds in the collapse of a massive star into a neutron star proves that these catastrophic events, often called hypernovae, can generate the enormous magnetic fields needed to explode the star and fire off bursts of gamma rays visible halfway across the universe.