The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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Based on the new model, the first of these white dwarf explosions isn’t due for at least 10 1100 years. That’s a 1 followed by 1,100 zeros—a number so big that we don’t have a name for it.