In recent years, a handful of unusual stars have been cited as evidence for extraordinarily powerful stellar explosions called hypernovae. New research suggests these stars can be explained without ...

Violent explosions of massive, magnetized stars may forge most of the universe’s heavy elements, such as silver and uranium. The ancient star’s elements aren’t from the remnants of a neutron star ...

A team of astronomers has detected the first-ever direct evidence for the existence of a “hypernova,” which is a type of very energetic supernova. If there’s one thing massive stars love doing toward ...