Another knot of Fear?

[Peregrinus]

The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope picked up a whole new type of cosmic explosion: a ultra high-intensity explosion coming from the surface of a white dwarf star. The finding stunned observers and theorists alike because it overturns a long-standing notion that such novae explosions lack the power for such high-energy emissions.

In March, Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected gamma rays -- the most energetic form of light -- from the nova for 15 days. Scientists believe that the emission arose as a million-mile-per-hour shock wave raced from the site of the explosion. A nova is a sudden, short-lived brightening of an otherwise inconspicuous star. The outburst occurs when a white dwarf in a binary system erupts in an enormous thermonuclear explosion.

Scientists think it was a star that blew up...

Perhaps more "helping"... at any rate, the video is in 720p and is beautiful to watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNmHuBtF3Ew

[@ndy]

What an amazing vid.
The explosion was nice, but what I loved was the Supermassive black hole, brings me the whole sensation of


Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!