Good news for astrophysicists and fans of massive thermonuclear explosions alike: a team of mathematicians at the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working alongside two astrophysicists from Stony Brook University and U.C. Santa Cruz, have modeled the hours leading up to a Type Ia supernova, capturing the gritty details of the cataclysmic death of a white dwarf star for the first time.
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
[Link: Department of Energy]
Friday, September 25, 2009
1st 3-D Model of a Star Going Supernova
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