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The Biggest Bomb in the Cosmos

Antimatter Supernova -The Biggest Bomb in the Cosmos: “We’ve recently seen the largest explosion ever recorded: a supergiant star two hundred times bigger than the sun utterly obliterated by runaway thermonuclear reactions triggered by gamma ray-driven antimatter production.  The resulting blast was visible for months because it unleashed a  cloud of radioactive material over fifty times the size of our own star, giving off a nuclear fission glow visible from galaxies away.”

Antimatter Supernova is a great name.

Head over to read the whole article… completely fascinating.

March 14, 2010

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  1. Ben Mironer
    March 14, 2010 at 1:25 pm #

    Whoa, don’t let iran get a hold of that. (JOKE)