The Strangest Explosion Astronomers Have Ever Seen Just Happened

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the strangest explosion in space seen to date - a superkilonova
Links:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

0:00 Superkilonova?! What's that?
1:50 Supernova vs Kilonova
4:05 Aug 2025 event that shocked astronomers
6:10 An even stranger observation - impossible neutron stars
9:35 Additional discoveries
10:45 Conclusions and implications

#kilonova #supernova #superkilonova
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Credit:
CALTECH    • Double Cosmic Explosion  
ESO/E. Pian et al./S. Smartt & ePESSTO -https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso... CC by 4.0

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