Sentences with phrase «host superluminous»
The dwarf galaxies that usually host superluminous supernovas are known to have a low metal content, which was thought to be an essential ingredient for making these explosions.
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«The current idea is that a low - metal environment is important in creating superluminous supernovae, and that's why they tend to occur in low mass galaxies, but DES15E2mlf is in a relatively massive galaxy compared to the typical host galaxy for superluminous supernovae,» said Pan, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Cruz and first author of the paper.