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supernova

[soo-per-noh-vuh] / ˌsu pərˈnoʊ və /
NOUN
black hole
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Then there’s poet and novelist Ocean Vuong, whose appearance on the show in 2025 was like a supernova.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

These features are typical of a supernova, specifically a "stripped-envelope core-collapse" supernova, not a kilonova.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

The candidate event, named AT2025ulz, appears to be tied to a supernova that happened just hours earlier.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

"Everybody was intensely trying to observe and analyze it, but then it started to look more like a supernova, and some astronomers lost interest. Not us."

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

If a supernova explosion happened within five hundred light-years of us, we would be goners, according to Evans–"it would wreck the show," as he cheerfully puts it.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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