A Star May Have Destroyed Itself — SN 2023vbw Hints

SN 2023vbw may be a pair-instability supernova, a rare blast that destroys the star instead of leaving a remnant.

Key takeaways

• Did SN 2023vbw actually collapse like an ordinary massive star, or did it annihilate itself in one of the universe’s rarest known stellar explosions?
• That is the real tension behind a new analysis of the 2023 event, first detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility in October 2023 about **1.3 billion light-yea...
• MLXIO analysis: the story is not just that astronomers may have found a rare blast. It is that the first label on a cosmic explosion can be too neat. SN 2023vbw looks ...
• Did SN 2023vbw behave too strangely to remain a Type II supernova?

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