Astronomers May Have Found a Strange New Kind of Cosmic Explosion
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- Category: Science
- Language: EN
- Published: 2026-04-24 10:02 UTC
- Sources: Science Daily
Scientists detected ripples in space-time and spotted a fast-fading red glow that may be an entirely new kind of stellar cataclysm. The signal shifted from behaving like a kilonova to a supernova, leaving researchers puzzled.
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