Listening for the Universe’s Faintest Whispers, a Billion Supernovae at Once

Listening for the Universe’s Faintest Whispers, a Billion Supernovae at Once

Buried a kilometre underground in Japan, one of the world’s most sensitive detectors may have caught its first faint trace of a sound scientists have been straining to hear for decades, the combined whisper of every supernova that has ever exploded across the universe. It is not yet a confirmed discovery, but if it holds up, it could rewrite how we trace the life and death of stars.

Universe Today
Go to Source