In October 2023, a stellar explosion 1.3 billion light-years away quietly defied every expectation astronomers had built around dying stars. What the Zwicky Transient Facility captured was not the familiar collapse of a spent giant, but the total self-annihilation of a star so massive that matter and antimatter conspired to unmake it entirely — leaving nothing behind. Designated SN 2023vbw and now identified as a rare pair-instability supernova, this event invites us to reconsider the outermost boundaries of stellar existence and the strange physics that governs what the universe's most extrem
Astronomers detect rare stellar self-destruction with no remnants
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