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SN 2008D, a supernova explosion detected by NASA’s Swift X-ray
Space Telescope inside the galaxy NGC
2770 on January 9, 2009, might have actually been triggered by
the gravitational collapse of a massive star into a black hole,
say researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics,
who claim that the event looked more like an energetic
gamma-ray burst, rather than a classic stellar explosion.

“Our observations and modeling show this to be a rather unusual
event, to be better understood in terms of an object lying at
the boundary between normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts,”
said the Italian astrophysicist Paolo Mazzali of the Padova
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