A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

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Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...