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Unraveling the “Big Boom”

Simulations performed on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit supercomputer provide a more detailed look at how stars die and could help unlock new insights into the origins of Earth’s heavy elements. The study, conducted by scientists at ORNL and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, modeled the collapse and explosion of…
Matt Lakin
November 11, 2021