Giant lasers help re-create supernovas’ explosive, mysterious physics
Pocket-sized blasts in the lab reveal details of massive stellar explosions
Researchers are re-creating the physics of cosmic explosions using the world’s most energetic lasers, such as the one at OMEGA (shown) at the University of Rochester in New York.
Eugene Kowaluk/Univ. of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics
When one of Hye-Sook Park’s experiments goes well, everyone nearby knows.