A Detailed Breakdown of Core Collapse Supernovae

The amount of energy produced from the collapsing core of a massive star is pretty inconceivable. The mechanism that facilitates the creation and distribution of this energy is just as wild. If you’re like me you may have heard that Supernovae are the result of stellar masses “bouncing“ off the incredibly dense proto-neutron star core. Like many things in this world, reality is far more complicated. The research presented here was conducted by the Princeton Supernovae Group. David Vartanyan acknowledges NSF and DoE funding and the computational facilities at NERSC, TACC, and ALCF, with special thanks to Joseph Insley for visualization. The research was published in and Special thanks to: - Dr. David Vartanyan for supplying high def simulation footage and answering questions - Prof. Robin Jeffries for answering some questions and clearing up some misconceptions I had about the the Direct Urca Pr