Scientists discover cause of brightest-ever burst of light | BBC News

Scientists have discovered the cause of the brightest burst of light ever recorded - but discovered two even bigger mysteries in the process.
The burst of light, spotted in 2022, is now known to have had an exploding star at its heart, researchers say.
But that explosion, by itself, would not have been enough to have shone so brightly, and the discovery casts doubt on where heavy elements - like gold - come from.
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  • @EyeDeal_666
    @EyeDeal_666Ай бұрын

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    Ай бұрын

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    @StarDustMoonRocket

    Ай бұрын

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    @josephteller9715

    Ай бұрын

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    @eo177

    Ай бұрын

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  • @LeonDegrelle.z

    @LeonDegrelle.z

    Ай бұрын

    comt ID 🆔 check for acct easy stuff for hole of YT 😊

  • @paulsterx
    @paulsterxАй бұрын

    Ah that classic Oasis hit, ‘Smashing Supernovae’. Takes me back…

  • @penhaligano

    @penhaligano

    Ай бұрын

    😂

  • @baeberry3794

    @baeberry3794

    Ай бұрын

    Champane Supernova... In the sky?

  • @penhaligano

    @penhaligano

    Ай бұрын

    Somebody tell the poor lady 😂

  • @jroobz

    @jroobz

    Ай бұрын

    loool

  • @rogueplanet13

    @rogueplanet13

    Ай бұрын

    And hulks gamma rays

  • @reamoinmcdonachadh9519
    @reamoinmcdonachadh9519Ай бұрын

    This Super Nova was 2 billion light years away? So.....the light from it took that length of time to reach us, and we saw it for what? 7 minutes? This explosion was old before the first Human walked the Planet!!

  • @moonshoes11

    @moonshoes11

    Ай бұрын

    That is relativity, right?

  • @zapfanzapfan

    @zapfanzapfan

    Ай бұрын

    The explosion was old before we had multicellular life on this planet...

  • @peterclarke3990

    @peterclarke3990

    Ай бұрын

    Allegedly!

  • @jimmygrizz9341

    @jimmygrizz9341

    Ай бұрын

    Yep. Leave it to women to always bring up old shit.

  • @PrabhuRPR

    @PrabhuRPR

    Ай бұрын

    @@moonshoes11not relativity, it’s about the speed the light. It took that long for the explosion to be visible on earth, because the light of the explosion just reached us here travelling for this much time. Cos yk, it’s massive massive distance

  • @deadwalking100
    @deadwalking100Ай бұрын

    Just glad it's that far away! The energy released mind boggling deadly.

  • @MrSimonw58

    @MrSimonw58

    Ай бұрын

    I can handle it

  • @jacmeredith4892

    @jacmeredith4892

    Ай бұрын

    Far away and a long time ago

  • @kennybevan11

    @kennybevan11

    Ай бұрын

    And even at that distance, it did affect our ozone. Astonishing power

  • @gorrilaunit99
    @gorrilaunit99Ай бұрын

    *Maybe don't underestimate us small stars* 💪

  • @johnd2058

    @johnd2058

    Ай бұрын

    As a big one, I can confirm. One of my army buddies was small enough to punch me in the back of my knees. Impossible to stand against him in a fight.

  • @wednesdeity

    @wednesdeity

    Ай бұрын

    @@johnd2058 3 inches isn't big

  • @user-ld2iy4fo6g

    @user-ld2iy4fo6g

    Ай бұрын

    @@wednesdeity It is above average!!!!

  • @wednesdeity

    @wednesdeity

    Ай бұрын

    @@user-ld2iy4fo6g it’s large I’d say

  • @RandomnessTube.

    @RandomnessTube.

    Ай бұрын

    Stars aren't small they just come in other sizes.

  • @RealWatch1
    @RealWatch1Ай бұрын

    for anyone wondering supernovae is the plural of supernova

  • @BillyP13

    @BillyP13

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks for stating the obvious.

  • @Simp_Zone

    @Simp_Zone

    Ай бұрын

    This "professor" got it wrong though lol

  • @bran_rx

    @bran_rx

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks, I thought that was a whole new phenomenon.

  • @brashawnwilliams4868

    @brashawnwilliams4868

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you because I was def wondering what she was talking about!

  • @zapfanzapfan

    @zapfanzapfan

    Ай бұрын

    Maybe the nova identifies as "they" 🙂

  • @zerocompanyhq
    @zerocompanyhqАй бұрын

    1:16 *Supernova (supernovae is the plural) 1:19 _"Champagne Supernova"_ is the Oasis song #FacePalm #SMH

  • @Jeonex

    @Jeonex

    Ай бұрын

    I actually cringed when she said it

  • @jskillet8912

    @jskillet8912

    Ай бұрын

    Saaaaaame

  • @lindaseel9986

    @lindaseel9986

    Ай бұрын

    I came here to say the same thing.

  • @nagualdesign

    @nagualdesign

    Ай бұрын

    What do you mean? _Smashing Supernovae_ is a great song.

  • @Statsy10

    @Statsy10

    Ай бұрын

    Thank God I'm not an Oasis fan, that sounded like it would've hurt. 😂

  • @public.public
    @public.publicАй бұрын

    That supernova is small fry compared to Professor Catherine Heymans teeth generating the brightest burst of light in recorded history.

  • @boeingpameesha9550
    @boeingpameesha9550Ай бұрын

    My sincere thanks for sharing it.

  • @blinkyrob182
    @blinkyrob182Ай бұрын

    Reporter learnt absolutely sod all from that encounter 😂

  • @Scapestoat
    @ScapestoatАй бұрын

    The chemistry between the two was lovely. Mutual excitement channelled into informing the masses. :)

  • @elderwild1687

    @elderwild1687

    Ай бұрын

    Ur gay

  • @LeonDegrelle.z
    @LeonDegrelle.zАй бұрын

    Aliens can you see our signal 😮

  • @kabirsingh2193

    @kabirsingh2193

    Ай бұрын

    The smile signal

  • @kacodemonio

    @kacodemonio

    Ай бұрын

    @@kabirsingh2193 The smile of Violeta Friedman

  • @LittleLostBaby

    @LittleLostBaby

    Ай бұрын

    They can see what kind of toothpaste you use! They're watching YOU YOU YOU specifically!! 🤣

  • @dukeofglasgow9354

    @dukeofglasgow9354

    Ай бұрын

    YOU ARE BUGS

  • @LeonDegrelle.z

    @LeonDegrelle.z

    Ай бұрын

    Can you see the signal Dinosaurs probably 😂 they were about when it left the origin

  • @countvontoten3978
    @countvontoten3978Ай бұрын

    It is probably an Imperial Death Star test firing exercise.

  • @Perri_Redder
    @Perri_RedderАй бұрын

    This looks like an exceptionally powerful axial beam. I personally never expected to ever see something like this. Pulsars have a somewhat similar force. I love that she actually talked about how massive compression forces during supernovae likely form low mass black holes during the event. I still cannot imagine the requirements for a supernovae to produce such exceptionally powerful axial beams at this solar mass and energy. Much study is required! So exciting!!

  • @bubblezovlove7213

    @bubblezovlove7213

    28 күн бұрын

    I've always wondered how axial beams come to be. Is it a product partially anyway, of the fact the object is spinning so fast?

  • @littlefinger5199
    @littlefinger5199Ай бұрын

    She’s driving me crazy using the word supernovae! 😂😂😂

  • @phunanon
    @phunanonАй бұрын

    This is the second time I've seen Heymans on BBC - I love her explanations of things, even if I'm already familiar with a lot of it!

  • @davecanly7535

    @davecanly7535

    Ай бұрын

    She didn't answer any of the questions specifically...waste of time asking her

  • @CustardCream22

    @CustardCream22

    Ай бұрын

    Really? She repeated what we already knew, made loads of mistakes and answered nothing. She’s terrible 😂

  • @lifesbutastumble

    @lifesbutastumble

    Ай бұрын

    And yet you didn't notice she mispronounced supernova multiple times?

  • @phunanon

    @phunanon

    Ай бұрын

    @@lifesbutastumble, she said "supernovae", which is the plural of "supernova" 😐

  • @lifesbutastumble

    @lifesbutastumble

    Ай бұрын

    @@phunanon Yes, but she also used it when talking about the singular, AND when talking about the Oasis song

  • @kazi6343
    @kazi634329 күн бұрын

    Those damn aliens need to keep it down. People are trying to sleep here.

  • @markhand4530
    @markhand4530Ай бұрын

    what a lovely smile it has brightened up my day

  • @alexanderp7521

    @alexanderp7521

    29 күн бұрын

    yep, the person with such a smile can bite off your hand and do not notice 😄

  • @andychizzle
    @andychizzleАй бұрын

    That was one of the weirdest 3:44 mins of my life 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @XTSu-sl1bb
    @XTSu-sl1bbАй бұрын

    The boat 😂

  • @TheKennychan1
    @TheKennychan1Ай бұрын

    The B.O.A.T. Luv it ❤

  • @shmookins
    @shmookinsАй бұрын

    And the other day I was reading about a star that is shooting a beam 40 trillion miles long. That is enough to go to our nearest star then halfway back again. Mindboggling stuff the universe is.

  • @2ebarman
    @2ebarmanАй бұрын

    Maybe small black hole passing through the star, aggitating it beyond repair🤔

  • @steveswanproductionstt6355
    @steveswanproductionstt6355Ай бұрын

    I love the acronym!

  • @oluwatoyinkushalu1999
    @oluwatoyinkushalu1999Ай бұрын

    she doesn't need to be married to have a gold ring. 😂😂😂😂

  • @sangeet9100

    @sangeet9100

    Ай бұрын

    ... and to have known about gold you don't need to have acquired a gold ring either - some reasoning by a scientist! must have had a recent wedding where she saw her first gold ever

  • @sangeet9100

    @sangeet9100

    Ай бұрын

    her wedding ring just exploded, probably

  • @MrMegatron2011

    @MrMegatron2011

    Ай бұрын

    She seems super nervous but trying to contain it.

  • @alissonkelly1510
    @alissonkelly1510Ай бұрын

    I wonder if the guy who invented science thought his work would lead to this, amazing underdog story

  • @sintyacozma237
    @sintyacozma237Ай бұрын

    I want to see more science news

  • @vanessacherche6393
    @vanessacherche6393Ай бұрын

    alignment of the supernova has a great deal to do with how bright the gamma rays are, given enough supernovae in the universe, one is always closest to a bullseye...

  • @northascrowsfly
    @northascrowsflyАй бұрын

    Seven minutes is a long time compared to other cosmological 'flash' events. Did they actually catch the whole timeline and scale so as to form a graphical representation?

  • @jimmygrizz9341

    @jimmygrizz9341

    Ай бұрын

    Who you asking? You know the TV can’t hear you, right? The lady in the video isn’t going to respond to your question.

  • @northascrowsfly

    @northascrowsfly

    Ай бұрын

    @@jimmygrizz9341 You know other people will watch this video, right? You know other people will read the comments, right? You know other people might know more about the full report, right? You know other people aren't toxic and irrelevant like you, right?

  • @vanessacherche6393

    @vanessacherche6393

    Ай бұрын

    i'd imagine there are at least a few graphs of the event. haven't seen em myself, but data would be standard. should be available when study is peer reviewed.

  • @TheGreenReaper

    @TheGreenReaper

    Ай бұрын

    @@jimmygrizz9341 Well, actually... this _is_ the BBC channel, so you never know.

  • @jamesarnette1394
    @jamesarnette139428 күн бұрын

    What is a supanavy?

  • @paulrockatansky77
    @paulrockatansky77Ай бұрын

    A typical supernova doesn't produce anything heavier than iron. Elements heavier than iron (like gold, platinum, uranium) get created in neutron star mergers, which themselves are remnants of a star going supernova. This was a single star event, and yet the professor wrongly kept referring to it in plural (supernovae, with an "ee" at the end).

  • @LeonDegrelle.z

    @LeonDegrelle.z

    Ай бұрын

    😂 big red bunions komrade

  • @davecanly7535

    @davecanly7535

    Ай бұрын

    Infact, she didn't answer anything ...just explained in a roundabout way what most of us know anyway...where do they get these people from

  • @kennybevan11

    @kennybevan11

    Ай бұрын

    The main problem is there aren't enough kilonovae to produce the amount of heavy elements we see out there. It has to come from somewhere else too

  • @rayoflight62

    @rayoflight62

    Ай бұрын

    I speak Latin. For some reasons, there are many more speakers of Latin than what anyone is lead to believe. It is difficult to give an idea of how many mistakes people make, when they speak even a single word of Latin, pretending to know what they are talking about...

  • @rayoflight62

    @rayoflight62

    Ай бұрын

    The Chicxulub asteroid was one giant lump of iridium. It left a visible layer of the metal in rock formations all over our Planet...

  • @danielhenderson7050
    @danielhenderson7050Ай бұрын

    Anyone know why she keeps using the plural supernovae to refer to a single supernova?

  • @JeffreyGoddin

    @JeffreyGoddin

    Ай бұрын

    She's not, it's a regional accent.

  • @danielhenderson7050

    @danielhenderson7050

    Ай бұрын

    ​​@@JeffreyGoddin what is the region her accent is from? Are there other words ending in a but sound like ee in that accent?

  • @quinkydinkend

    @quinkydinkend

    29 күн бұрын

    @@danielhenderson7050she’s not Scottish

  • @krellis1000

    @krellis1000

    29 күн бұрын

    @@JeffreyGoddin Certainly not a regional pronunciation

  • @krellis1000

    @krellis1000

    29 күн бұрын

    @@danielhenderson7050 Sounds like a standard Home Counties accent, they say supernova like everyone else

  • @Zeppelin9113
    @Zeppelin9113Ай бұрын

    the BOAT lol

  • @earlhammond9810
    @earlhammond9810Ай бұрын

    Could it be that this super nova was aimed directly at Earth instead of an oblique angle of gamma rays? Could the aforementioned be the cause of the BOAT?

  • @deadmemesrus1119

    @deadmemesrus1119

    Ай бұрын

    Possssibly but it’s really hard to tell. If it was a gamma ray burst then absolutely that would be the easiest explanation but since it’s a supernova, which tends to have a more uniform energy dispersal it’s kinda hard to tell. My imagination says we might be seeing new insight into how pulsars are born with their radiation jets at the poles. However that would leave us wondering why it’s not got a variable magnitude. It would help explain it but that’s literally just entirely guesswork.

  • @CloudBushyMath
    @CloudBushyMathАй бұрын

    Wow, Sounds both Marvelous and Mind Blowing

  • @DarjaTruth
    @DarjaTruthАй бұрын

    The exact position?

  • @solessoles-hm1dg
    @solessoles-hm1dgАй бұрын

    Didn't know that the mouth of Sauron was an astronomer aswell...cool!

  • @_ArsNova
    @_ArsNovaАй бұрын

    Gamma rays being explained as "that Hulk thing"... embarrassing.

  • @Twirlip2
    @Twirlip2Ай бұрын

    So, as I understand it: the Hulk drank champagne at a super Navy wedding on a big boat wearing a gold ring made of heavy chemicals; and in a disturbing development, the Joker now controls the body of a professor of astrophysics; but if that's the case, where's Batman?

  • @aliasif8498
    @aliasif8498Ай бұрын

    Twinkle Twinkle little star How i wonder wat u are

  • @SolarBeatbox
    @SolarBeatboxАй бұрын

    It was a Death Star!

  • @moonshoes11

    @moonshoes11

    Ай бұрын

    Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father….

  • @zapfanzapfan

    @zapfanzapfan

    Ай бұрын

    Dead star anyway...

  • @roguesheep3083
    @roguesheep3083Ай бұрын

    advanced aliens testing a weapon. for peace, of course.

  • @Zeibekkikina
    @Zeibekkikina26 күн бұрын

    Brighter still is Prof. Catherine's smile ❤

  • @LuiExcalibur
    @LuiExcaliburАй бұрын

    Sainsbury’s probably have better data on the subject

  • @CustardCream22

    @CustardCream22

    Ай бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣

  • @redmed10
    @redmed1025 күн бұрын

    Doesn't this example place doubts on the concepts of standard candles which are used to identify the expansion and expansion rate of the universe.

  • @user-ge1fj1cf7o
    @user-ge1fj1cf7oАй бұрын

    Dynamite comes in small packages 👌

  • @runner9528
    @runner9528Ай бұрын

    How many hulks can it create?

  • @myutube5882
    @myutube5882Ай бұрын

    So this explosion happened over 4 billion years ago and we're just now getting that light.

  • @adeyanjufasan6716
    @adeyanjufasan671621 күн бұрын

    That dangerous looking gas pipe in my garage. Wicked.

  • @s18169ex3
    @s18169ex3Ай бұрын

    What is a Novy? I’ve heard of supernova, but not supernovae.

  • @florinadrian5174
    @florinadrian5174Ай бұрын

    I thought they were talking about her BOAT teeth. Seriously though, a possible explanation would be that the emission was not radial but constrained by a magnetic and/or gravitational field into a jet (well, two diametrically opposed) and the Earth was lucky enough to be in the right direction. Was there ever such a jet supernova?

  • @quinkydinkend
    @quinkydinkend29 күн бұрын

    “And a smashing Supernovie in the skyyyyy”

  • @BeachBum100
    @BeachBum100Ай бұрын

    What a "bright" set of choppers on that Astronomer!😁

  • @lifesbutastumble
    @lifesbutastumbleАй бұрын

    I cringed every time she said "supernova"

  • Ай бұрын

    We were all our Grandma's brightest-ever bursts of light 😘

  • @rather_be_a_cat
    @rather_be_a_catАй бұрын

    She has got to be the most condescending person I've ever had explain something to me.

  • @SimonMcGrath-oj8kg

    @SimonMcGrath-oj8kg

    Ай бұрын

    Why? She said nothing that cud be taken as condescending, she knows very little of stellar mechanics and wanted to understand from a Professor.

  • @davecanly7535

    @davecanly7535

    Ай бұрын

    Yes considering she didn't answer anything 😢

  • @rather_be_a_cat

    @rather_be_a_cat

    Ай бұрын

    @@SimonMcGrath-oj8kg I'm pretty sure people know what gold is without needing to be married and own a wedding ring, just for one.

  • @SimonMcGrath-oj8kg

    @SimonMcGrath-oj8kg

    Ай бұрын

    @@rather_be_a_cat To be fair she was using that as an example to people who don't no where the heavy elements come from, young kid's say. Now we no it's not the stars per say that make the heaviest elements but their 'off spring' shall we say Neutron Stars. I get ur point tho and u r right

  • @bubblezovlove7213
    @bubblezovlove721328 күн бұрын

    Whoah!! Her smile, it was her smile overpowering the data..... I'm blind...

  • @jeffbguarino
    @jeffbguarinoАй бұрын

    I thought they already figured out that supernovas don't make gold and platinum. It is neutron star mergers that do this. That was a few years ago that they figured this out.

  • @kennybevan11

    @kennybevan11

    Ай бұрын

    The main problem is there aren't enough kilonovae to produce the amount of heavy elements we see out there. It has to come from somewhere else too

  • @jeffbguarino

    @jeffbguarino

    Ай бұрын

    @@kennybevan11 I didn't know that. I will look it up. I think a good chunk of the heavy elements some from kilonovae. I know they saw , ordinary supernova don't make much at all.

  • @user-tz1tr3vn6d
    @user-tz1tr3vn6dАй бұрын

    That's was just me in my spirit on my way to c my other self in another dimension....

  • @michaelcox436
    @michaelcox436Ай бұрын

    What's a "soopanovy"?

  • @koolerpure
    @koolerpureАй бұрын

    maybe it was so bright because its directing its light towards us

  • @catalinacurio
    @catalinacurioАй бұрын

    “Ever recorded”, so far… 😊

  • @Necrotoxin7
    @Necrotoxin727 күн бұрын

    Only supernova I got was from those teeth woah 😬😮

  • @rjkarlin9366
    @rjkarlin9366Ай бұрын

    Give us your brightest

  • @Exarathas
    @ExarathasАй бұрын

    The scientist also played the Mouth of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings Return of the King Extended Edition

  • @Freenorg5

    @Freenorg5

    Ай бұрын

    Her dad was the frontman for Electric Mayhem

  • @D0Mlas360
    @D0Mlas360Ай бұрын

    Is a super novee different from a Super Nova?

  • @SimonMcGrath-oj8kg

    @SimonMcGrath-oj8kg

    Ай бұрын

    A Supernova is singular and Supernovae is plural. Nova is Latin for New, hope that helps.

  • @onthetrail3457
    @onthetrail3457Ай бұрын

    Brightest ever but should not have been that Bright.

  • @behavior852
    @behavior852Ай бұрын

    B.O.A.T! I'm loving it!

  • @rickywest2022
    @rickywest2022Ай бұрын

    Just shows how little we really know

  • @akbar87
    @akbar87Ай бұрын

    When the star farted. it was pointing at us. Simple

  • @alonerpunk
    @alonerpunkАй бұрын

    People who love what they do! It's contagious 😂😅

  • @jdn-wn4on
    @jdn-wn4onАй бұрын

    Those teeth smashing together can probably be seen from their end too.

  • @MahamoudMayday
    @MahamoudMaydayАй бұрын

    If I do a bigger explosion when I take MDMA again, will you finally believe me 😂

  • @xo121w
    @xo121wАй бұрын

    she could chew through metal

  • @mjpottertx
    @mjpottertxАй бұрын

    Not visible light but a gamma ray burst. Different from a super luminous supernova 2015LH.

  • @ameliashandcraftedmemes7888
    @ameliashandcraftedmemes788820 күн бұрын

    Oh that was probably me accidently turning on discord light mode... oops

  • @talentmongezi9825
    @talentmongezi9825Ай бұрын

    I think I solved the mystery. This professors grin might've been the catalyst to the supernova

  • @livefastdieyoung8703
    @livefastdieyoung8703Ай бұрын

    What is supernove ??

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple88329 күн бұрын

    I've found something brighter than that star, her smile. ✌️

  • @guybeingaguy
    @guybeingaguyАй бұрын

    Turns out it was actually a fire fly that landed on the lens 🤷‍♀️

  • @traildoggy
    @traildoggyАй бұрын

    Before being too sure of our importance, think of this... You're just hanging out on the porch having an evening refreshment. Something goes wrong on the other side of the galaxy. Five minutes later you get the sensation that something is odd about the sky. Before you can look up, everything for millions of miles in any direction is turned to molecules.. Have a nice day. 😁

  • @ukdnbmarsh
    @ukdnbmarshАй бұрын

    the star was small, ive heard the universe was pretty small once

  • @PrabhuRPR
    @PrabhuRPRАй бұрын

    The insignificant star produced the brightest light. That’s some notes for life.

  • @Onatyrade
    @OnatyradeАй бұрын

    exploding super nova ?

  • @dineshtharanga8122
    @dineshtharanga8122Ай бұрын

    interesting................

  • @MK44078
    @MK44078Ай бұрын

    It's gonna roast us like a marshmallow

  • @br2266
    @br2266Ай бұрын

    I don’t know about any bright supernova, but I do know some bright teeth that are very distracting.

  • @mimikurtz2162
    @mimikurtz2162Ай бұрын

    It's odd, but I didn't notice.

  • @morebaileyskim
    @morebaileyskimАй бұрын

    As a scottish guy living in the US I am well aware that we handle collective nouns differently. For example here in the states you could never say "our team are" as a collective it is always singular. I have NO CLUE why this contributor is saying the singular indefinite article followed by the plural. It makes negative sense. It is like a mistake was made and added to ha ha. Oh well. On to my next irritation I suppose :-D

  • @rendezvouzwithrama
    @rendezvouzwithramaАй бұрын

    Supernovi? It's supernovA, singular, not plural.

  • @nuggetwagon
    @nuggetwagonАй бұрын

    Perhaps stars detonate for different reasons? perhaps dense star pairs which are near core collision have massive cores that detonate simultaneously or even asymmetrically? and therefore create a long spent and broadly spewed radiative event that is more like a multiple detonation event? The shockwaves of asymmetrically detonating stars of maybe twice the mass of our sun ( there could have been three or four or more) could have created a long and bright novae event that cascaded and didn’t create too many heavy elements. The elements created would have been from reverberating superheated shockwave events. You might get potassium. Or you get cobalt or even rarely iron, which was likely the remnant of another long ago event. Actually probably get more silicon and other elements low on the periodic table. It’s seems to me that several stars in a dance could go super critical, and therefore not fusing much more than iron.who knows in a supercritical storm of superheated non matter in such an event. What might one get?

  • @lightningrod1063
    @lightningrod106329 күн бұрын

    You got the Astronomer Royal of Scotland to tell us what a supernova is? Why do astronomers think they can't talk about anything but the most basic topics in their field? How many times have we heard the definition of a black hole - Gravity so powerful, not even Light can escape. They just repeat the first-year stuff over and over.

  • @Acex4090
    @Acex4090Ай бұрын

    Something about her smile makes me uncomfortable.

  • @haoyuan92
    @haoyuan92Ай бұрын

    Not bright enough to light up my life

  • @chrizzbenyon3993
    @chrizzbenyon3993Ай бұрын

    Gold is made by neutron capture not in supernovae according to Arvin Ash.

  • @dariushmilani6760
    @dariushmilani6760Ай бұрын

    Bear in mind that this event happened 2.4 billion years ago and it took light that long to reach us .

  • @jasonngamare6525
    @jasonngamare6525Ай бұрын

    Could be multiple of things given it so far away? Obviously this must mean that space black mater has a lest density which will obviously have this affect what else would this mean probably the end of a black whole what goes in must come out

  • @gillianeddleston2869
    @gillianeddleston2869Ай бұрын

    Listened to find out why this light was so bright from such a small supernova (question posed by the presenter who incidentally has an unnerving way of staring at the camera) and after the astrophysicist then repeated exactly what the presenter had already said and after lots of other sidestepping I learned precisely nothing. In other words they don't know diddly squat.

  • @zapfanzapfan
    @zapfanzapfanАй бұрын

    It went out with a bang... or a flash anyway... ⚡

  • @reyesarg
    @reyesargАй бұрын

    Champagne super novee in the skyyyy