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The epidemic of loneliness sweeping across the world is well documented. Every day, it seems, there’s a new study or report about the dangers posed by chronic loneliness and isolation.
Researchers are excited about the discovery
Astronomers have confirmed what’s at the centre of a supernova, the violent explosive deaths of massive stars.
Stars die as they exhaust the fuel required for driving the nuclear reactions that enable their illumination. However, astronomers suggest that a huge stellar mass causes the gravitational force to destroy the atoms, forming either a neutron star or, for larger stars, a black hole.
When a star up to 20 times the mass of our sun exploded in a nearby galaxy, the blast was so violent that it was visible to the naked eye from Earth's southern hemisphere for weeks in 1987