The scientists were able to create a simulation of a supernova explosion in the laboratory

Joint team of scientists from various countries, including Japan, France, Switzerland, the US and the UK, has been able to conduct a simulation of a supernova explosion in the laboratory. The study has been published in the authoritative edition of Nature Physics.

To simulate an explosion carbon fiber, the thickness of which does not exceed the thickness of the hair was placed in a chamber with a sparse argon. Then, using the three laser beams with a capacity many billions of times greater than a normal pointer (literally "60, 000 billion times»), scientists have been able to heat the fiber to a temperature of several million degrees.

At some point there was an explosion, with the emergence of the shock wave. The camera was placed as plastic mesh (in centimeters from the epicenter), which, after the explosion, has acquired a definite shape (thus, scientists have determined the configuration of the explosion). According to experts, the parameters of the explosion in the laboratory are very similar to the parameters of the explosion (with known parameters, of course) of a supernova in space.



The picture was taken through a 300-billionth of a second. The picture is aligned with the computer model плотности electrons / distribution after the explosion. i>

In particular, the structure of turbulence artificial explosion very similar to the structure of the eddies with pictures Кассиопеи A . In addition, in vitro were able to detect enhancement of the magnetic field from the explosion, due to turbulence in the plasma.

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